Harvesting through the seasons
Harvesting through the seasons
Spring, summer, and fall vegetables come one after the other, but they don't necessarily look the same! With a little organization, in the vegetable garden, all these seasons are beautiful and bountiful.
Some vegetables can be grown quite early, before the peak season. These early crops produce early vegetables that bring freshness and sweetness. For each vegetable, the growing season varies in length and requires careful selection of the right varieties.
Get ahead with early vegetables
After winter, the gardener is impatient. But we must wait. Why not try to get a head start?
To be successful, you need to carefully choose the right vegetable varieties to grow early in the season. Many vegetables offer this possibility: radishes, carrots, peas, cabbage (among others). Therefore, it's important to carefully study the information on the seed packets: for sowing under cover, early cultivation, forced cultivation, early vegetables, etc.
If you want to harvest for a long time, take care of your seedlings.
To harvest over a long period and just the quantities you need, simply stagger the sowing of lettuce, beans, carrots, radishes, etc. You can also choose varieties of different precocity to harvest peacefully and discover new flavors.
Let's take radishes as an example. For the same sowing, the harvest period will be relatively short, about two weeks, because radishes grow quickly and hollow out as they age. By staggering sowing every 15 days, whether they are round or long, white, pink, or red, they will be ready to eat until fall.
It is therefore better to sow in small doses and to diversify the varieties to always have fresh vegetables on hand.
Always a salad on hand
For salads, there are always seasonal varieties. You can also choose varieties with very varied foliage, both in their shapes and colors: head lettuce, romaine, batavia, oak leaf, curly endive, escarole, green, blond, red... A wide choice to vary the pleasures and add color to your plate.
Additionally, some varieties of so-called cutting lettuce will regrow several times when the leaves above the collar are simply removed with a knife.
Sow vegetables for regular harvests
for an average climate (Ile-de-France type)
Source: Gnis / Semencemag.fr
