Vegetables

Vegetable gardening is a wonderful hobby for many. It is relatively easy to grow a few vegetables in the home garden. Raised beds are excellent for growing vegetables in home gardens. Many gardeners like growing vegetables in containers. Vegetables can also be incorporated into the landscape in the form of "edible landscape."

Vegetables

Typically, vegetables are divided into cool-season and warm season vegetables. Warm season vegetables, such as cucumber, eggplant, squash, tomatoes, green beans, and peppers are typically planted after May 15 each year. However, cucumber can be planted around July 1 to avoid cucumber beetle and bacterial wilt disease for a successful fall crop. Cool season vegetables, such as lettuce, cabbage, and collards, are planted around April 1 for a spring harvest, or July 1 for a fall harvest.

Signature Programs:

* Fruit and Vegetable Short Course:   offered once a year, typically in February. 

* Horticulture Helpline:  run by our Delaware County Master Gardeners.  May through October - for more information call our office at  740/833-2030. 

* Usefull bulletins for sale: 

 Asparagus Production Guide:  $5.50 plus tax

 This publication was written to provide useful and practical information about asparagus production, management, and marketing to growers over a wide geographical area across the United States and Canada. It focuses primarily on the northeast, Midwest, and southeastern states.

 Ohio Vegetable Production Guide: $9.75 plus tax

This publication serves as an extensive guide for vegetable producers. It covers all aspects of vegetable production and management with topics such as Ohio climate and soils, transplants, pest and disease control and has instructions on proper pesticide handling. Most vegetables that can be grown in Ohio (including Asian vegetables) are featured in this bulletin, including beets, cabbages, beans, sweet corn, carrots, eggplants, and tomatoes.

Vegetable Fact Sheets: http://ohioline.osu.edu/lines/vegie.html

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