Gardening Under Lights by Leslie F. Halleck

Author:Leslie F. Halleck
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Timber Press
Published: 2018-12-11T16:00:00+00:00

Days-to-harvest varies, depending on whether you direct seed or transplant your edible crops.

Root crops don’t do well when transplanted. Seed them right into the garden or final growing container.

For the 85-day tomato variety, harvest time comes in 85 days plus the 8 to 10 weeks it took to grow a garden-ready transplant from seed, or 135 to 149 days (19 to 21 weeks) to produce harvestable fruit. Some crops are much quicker than others. Radishes, for example, can be ready to harvest within 28 to 35 days of germination.

Root crops (carrots, turnips, beets, radishes) and large-seeded crops (beans, broad beans, squash, corn) do not transplant well, so you should sow them directly into the garden or final growing container. In this case, the days-to-harvest number on the seed packet is the time it will take to harvest from the date of germination. Plant these crops when indoor or outdoor temperatures are ideal. Tropical crops (eggplant, peppers, and tomatoes) are typically started early indoors as transplants, allowing for bigger plants in the outdoor garden once temperatures are appropriate or after plants are bumped up to larger containers indoors. For these plants, days-to-harvest is counted from the date they are planted into the final container or outdoor garden.

Other crops fall somewhere in the middle. You can direct seed lettuce and many other salad greens, for example, into their final container or garden spot, but you can also grow them as transplants first, then bump them up into larger containers or set them in an outside garden.

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