The Recommended Varieties For Eggplant Are Black Beauty, Calliope, Classic, Dusky, Epic Fairy Tale (Aas), Ichiban, Night Shade, And Santana. For Lettuces, The Ag Center Recommends The Following: In The Romaine Category: Cimmaron Red, Cuare (Dm), Flashy Trout Back, Green Towers, Paris Island Cos, Red Eye And Tall Guzmaine Elite. In The Leaf Lettuce Category They Recommend: New Red Fire Mi (Dm), Red Salad Bowl, Nevada (Dm) Sierra Red Sails, Salad Bowl, Tango, And Grand Rapids. Finally, They Recommend Buttercrunch, Esmeralda (Dm), Great Lakes And Ithica In The Heading Lettuce Category. Do Remember That The Heading Lettuces Are The Most Difficult For Us To Grow Here. Our Short Cold Season Makes It Difficult For The Heads To Form Properly. Leaf Lettuces, On The Other Hand, Are Super Easy To Grow And We Can Start Harvesting Within A Few Weeks. There’S Absolutely Nothing Like A Salad Of Baby Lettuces From Your Own Garden.I have broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage transplants out and I planted peas mid-December, Oregon Sugar Pod II and Mammoth Melting Sugar. I couldn’t wait to see those tiny green shoots pop up with the rain that we had. Now I’m hoping that I get a yield from them since I planted them at the wrong time. I’ll let you know how it works out.
Starting mid-January you can plant beets, Chinese cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, Swiss chard, Irish potatoes and radishes, all from seed out in the garden. You can also plant eggplant from seed, peppers from seed indoors to generate seedlings to set out later in the year. You can plant broccoli, cabbage, Kohlrabi, lettuces, mustard greens, onions or leeks from sets, English peas, shallots, spinach and turnips all month long. Also during January you can plant tomatoes from seed indoors.Starting mid-January you can plant beets, Chinese cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, Swiss chard, Irish potatoes and radishes, all from seed out in the garden. You can also plant eggplant from seed, peppers from seed indoors to generate seedlings to set out later in the year. You can plant broccoli, cabbage, Kohlrabi, lettuces, mustard greens, onions or leeks from sets, English peas, shallots, spinach and turnips all month long. Also during January you can plant tomatoes from seed indoors.
The recommended varieties for eggplant are Black Beauty, Calliope, Classic, Dusky, Epic Fairy Tale (AAS), Ichiban, Night Shade, and Santana. For lettuces, the Ag Center recommends the following: in the Romaine category: Cimmaron Red, Cuare (DM), Flashy Trout Back, Green Towers, Paris Island Cos, Red Eye and Tall Guzmaine Elite. In the leaf lettuce category they recommend: New Red Fire MI (DM), Red Salad Bowl, Nevada (DM) Sierra Red Sails, Salad Bowl, Tango, and Grand Rapids. Finally, they recommend Buttercrunch, Esmeralda (DM), Great Lakes and Ithica in the heading lettuce category. Do remember that the heading lettuces are the most difficult for us to grow here. Our short cold season makes it difficult for the heads to form properly. Leaf lettuces, on the other hand, are super easy to grow and we can start harvesting within a few weeks. There’s absolutely nothing like a salad of baby lettuces from your own garden.
Beets, carrots, radishes, turnips and kohlrabi should be fertilized with 6-7 pounds of 8-8-8 or 4-5 pounds of 8-24-24. Do this by side-dressing 3 to 4 weeks after planting.
Since this is the Christmas season and I’m sort of busy I’m going to make this one shorter than usual. I wish you all a wonderful, peaceful Christmas and all the best in the coming year.
Until next time – Happy Gardening!
Starting mid-January you can plant beets, Chinese cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, Swiss chard, Irish potatoes and radishes, all from seed out in the garden. You can also plant eggplant from seed, peppers from seed indoors to generate seedlings to set out later in the year. You can plant broccoli, cabbage, Kohlrabi, lettuces, mustard greens, onions or leeks from sets, English peas, shallots, spinach and turnips all month long. Also during January you can plant tomatoes from seed indoors.Starting mid-January you can plant beets, Chinese cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, Swiss chard, Irish potatoes and radishes, all from seed out in the garden. You can also plant eggplant from seed, peppers from seed indoors to generate seedlings to set out later in the year. You can plant broccoli, cabbage, Kohlrabi, lettuces, mustard greens, onions or leeks from sets, English peas, shallots, spinach and turnips all month long. Also during January you can plant tomatoes from seed indoors.
The recommended varieties for eggplant are Black Beauty, Calliope, Classic, Dusky, Epic Fairy Tale (AAS), Ichiban, Night Shade, and Santana. For lettuces, the Ag Center recommends the following: in the Romaine category: Cimmaron Red, Cuare (DM), Flashy Trout Back, Green Towers, Paris Island Cos, Red Eye and Tall Guzmaine Elite. In the leaf lettuce category they recommend: New Red Fire MI (DM), Red Salad Bowl, Nevada (DM) Sierra Red Sails, Salad Bowl, Tango, and Grand Rapids. Finally, they recommend Buttercrunch, Esmeralda (DM), Great Lakes and Ithica in the heading lettuce category. Do remember that the heading lettuces are the most difficult for us to grow here. Our short cold season makes it difficult for the heads to form properly. Leaf lettuces, on the other hand, are super easy to grow and we can start harvesting within a few weeks. There’s absolutely nothing like a salad of baby lettuces from your own garden.
Beets, carrots, radishes, turnips and kohlrabi should be fertilized with 6-7 pounds of 8-8-8 or 4-5 pounds of 8-24-24. Do this by side-dressing 3 to 4 weeks after planting.
Since this is the Christmas season and I’m sort of busy I’m going to make this one shorter than usual. I wish you all a wonderful, peaceful Christmas and all the best in the coming year.
Until next time – Happy Gardening!
MaryAnn Armbruster, Ph.D.
MaryAnn Armbruster, Ph.D. is a certified Advanced Master Gardener and member of the Lafayette Parish Master Gardeners.
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