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Vegetable Harvest Dates: Approximate number of days from Planting

Vegetable Harvest Dates: Approximate number of days from planting

Approximate number of days from planting to market
maturity under optimum growing conditions.

Once you sow seeds or transplant vegetable plants into your garden, how long will it be until you can harvest something? These tables will tell you. Also, see this page for a Master List of Tomato varieties. and How to start vegetable plants from seed.

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Crop                    Early Variety  Late Variety
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Bean, bush                   46            65
Bean, pole                   56            72
Bean, lima, bush             65            78
Beet                         50            80
Broccoli, sprouting¹         70           150
Brussels sprouts²            90           100
Cabbage²                     62           110
Carrot                       60            85
Cauliflower, snowball type²  55            65
Chinese cabbage              70            80
Chives                       90            90
Corn                         70           100
Cucumber                     60            70
Eggplant                     70            85
Kohlrabi                     55            65
Lettuce, head                60            85
Lettuce, leaf                40            50
Melon, Honey Ball            90           115
Melon, Honey Dew             95           115
Muskmelon                    75            90
Mustard                      40            60
Okra                         50            60
Onion                        85           120
Parsley                      70            85
Parsnip                     100           130
Pea                          58            77
Pepper, sweet²               60            80
Potato                       90           120
Pumpkin                     110           120
Radish                       22            40
Radish, winter type          50            60
Rutabaga                     90            90
Spinach                      40            50
Squash, winter               50            68
Squash, summer               80           120
Tomato²                      65           100
Turnip                       40            75
Watermelon                   65            95
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When these crops are planted under low-temperature 
conditions, it takes them longer than indicated 
above to reach the harvest stage.
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¹For a direct-seeded crop. Transplanting may delay maturity by a few weeks, depending on
environmental conditions.
² For a transplanted crop additional time is needed from seed sowing to transplanting.

Sources:

Handbook for Vegetable Grower, Revised Printing by James Edward Knott, Professor of Vegetable Crops, University of California at Davis. Published by John Wiley and Sons, Somerset, NJ 08873.

Fruit and Vegetable Facts and Pointers. United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association, 101919th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.

Canning Books, Supplies and Accessories

These are my favorite essential canning tools, books and supplies. I've been using many of these for over 50 years of canning! The ones below on this page are just the sampling of. my preferred tools. but you can find much more detailed and extensive selections on the pages that are linked below.

The All New Ball Book Of Canning And Preserving: Over 350 of the Best Canned, Jammed, Pickled, and Preserved Recipes Paperback

This is THE book on canning! My grandmother used this book when I was a child.; It tells you in simple instructions how to can almost anything; complete with recipes for jam, jellies, pickles, sauces, canning vegetables, meats, etc.

If it can be canned, this book likely tells you how! Click on the link below for more information and / or to buy (no obligation to buy)The New Ball Blue Book of Canning and Preserving

Canning and Preserving for Dummies by Karen Ward

This is another popular canning book. Click here for more information, reviews, prices for Canning and Preserving For Dummies

Of course, you do not need to buy ANY canning book as I have about 500 canning, freezing, dehydrating and more recipes all online for free, just see Easy Home Canning Directions.

Home Canning Kits

I have several canners, and my favorite is the stainless steel one at right. It is easy to clean and seems like it will last forever. Mine is 10 years old and looks like new.

The black ones are the same type of standard canner that my grandmother used to make everything from applesauce to jams and jellies to tomato and spaghetti sauce.

This complete kit includes everything you need and lasts for years: the canner, jar rack, Jar grabber tongs, lid lifting wand, a plastic funnel, labels, bubble freer, It's much cheaper than buying the items separately. It's only missing the bible of canning, the Ball Blue Book.

You will never need anything else except jars & lids (and the jars are reusable)!

The complete list of canners is on these pages:

Water bath canners - Good for acidic foods, like applesauce, pickles, salsa, jams, jellies, most fruits
Pressure canners - needed for low and non-acidic foods, like canned vegetables (corn, green beans, etc), and meats
Canners for glass top stoves if you have a glass or ceramic stove
Canners for induction stovetops

Pressure Canners

If you plan on canning non-acidic foods and low acid foods that are not pickled - this means: meats, seafood, soups, green beans corn, most vegetables, etc., then you ABSOLUTELY must use a Pressure Canner.

Of course, you can use a pressure canner as a water bath canner as well - just don't seal it up, so it does not pressurize. This means a Pressure Canner is a 2-in-1 device. With it, you can can almost ANYTHING.

There are also other supplies, accessories, tools and more canners, of different styles, makes and prices, click here!

Basic Canning Accessories

From left to right:

Jar lifting tongs to pick up hot jars
Lid lifter - to remove lids from the pot of boiling water (sterilizing )
Lids- disposable - you may only use them once
Ring - holds the lids on the jar until after the jars cool - then you remove them, save them and reuse them
Canning Jar funnel - to fill the jars

FREE Illustrated Canning, Freezing, Jam Instructions and Recipes

Don't spend money on books. that you don't need to. Almost everything you can find in some book sold online or in a store is on my website here for free. Start with theEasy Home Canning Directions below. That is a master list of canning directions which are all based upon the Ball Bblue book, the National Center for Home Food Preservation and other reputable lab tested recipes. Almost every recipe I present in addition to being lab tested com. is in a step by step format with photos for each step and complete. explanations. that tell you how to do it, where to get the supplies and pretty much everything you need to know. In addition, there almost always in a PDF format so you can print them out and use them while you cook.

[ Easy Home Canning Directions]

[FAQs - Answers to common questions and problems]

[Free canning publications to download and print]

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