Tips for Planting Your Vegetable Garden
If you want a vegetable garden this season, it’s time to start making your plans!
This is the ideal time to plant leafy greens, such as spinach, lettuce, endive, cabbage and chard because these vegetables can be planted up to 6 weeks before the last frost (which, according to the Farmers’ Almanac can be as late as May 15th).
Late April into early May in New Jersey is the best time to plant your root and tuber vegetables, such as beets, carrots, turnips, and potatoes because they taste and grow better if they are planted before the air becomes too hot. Root vegetables can be planted directly into the soil and grow best in deep, loose soil that is not very acidic.
Here is the April 2021 Farmers’ Almanac Guide:
20th – 23rd Grub out weeds, briars, and other plant pests.
24th – 25th A favorable time to plant flowers. Plant corn, melons, squash, tomatoes, and other aboveground crops.
26th – 27th Start seedbeds. Good days for transplanting. Good days for planting beets, carrots, radishes, turnips, peanuts, and other root crops. Also good for leafy vegetables.
30th – 30th Favorable day for planting beets, carrots, turnips, radishes, onions, and other root crops.
To learn more about gardening by the moon from the Farmers’ Almanac:
