Bipartisan Gardening

[Wasillaguy]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

Cool. It looks like the shar pei of the vegetable world. What's the growing season up there?

The rule is not to plant anything outside until Memorial Day, though the last few years we've been able to cheat that by a week or two. In my experience, you don't gain much by starting early though. If the soil is still cold, the plants just sit there stunned anyway.
The greenhouse of course expands the growing season. The more you're willing to spend heating it, the earlier you can get going. I start 8-10 varieties of tomatoes in the house in early February, and by mid-April move them to the greenhouse.
Also in the greenhouse- peppers, cukes, tomatillos, corn, basil, and squash.

Outside we have all the other herbs, potatoes, cabbage, cauliflower, peas, carrots, beans, broccoli, kale, lettuce, strawberries, raspberries, currants, watermelon berry, and high bush cranberry.

By October we'll have it all harvested and cleaned up and ready for snow.