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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 .

 
 Crop                    Early Variety  Late Variety 
---------------------------------------------------
Bean, bush                   46            65
Bean, pole                   56            72
Bean, lima, bush             65            78
Beet                         50            80
Broccoli, sprouting 1 
70           150
Brussels sprouts 2 
90           100
Cabbage 2 
62           110
Carrot                       60            85
Cauliflower, snowball type 2 
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, sweet 2 
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
Tomato 2 
65           100
Turnip                       40            75
Watermelon                   65            95
---------------------------------------------- When these crops are planted under low-temperature 
conditions, it takes them longer than indicated 
above to reach the harvest stage. 
 

¹ For 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 .

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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.

• Vacuum Foodsealers for freezing, dried foods, and refrigerated foods - the FoodSaver line
• Selecting a KitchenAid mixer and attachments for home canning
• Steam Juicers
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• Cherry pitters reviews , prices and ordering
• Food dehydrators - easy and fast to dry your own fruits, veggies, sun-dried tomatoes, etc.

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 !

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Basic Canning Accessories

From left to right:

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