Vegetable list for Five Cedars Greenhouse..

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Vegetables for 2008 Tomatoes: Big Boy Early bush Roma Supersweet 100 Peppers: Green to Red bell Jalapeno Cayenne Cucumber Market more Cabbage: Green Red Lettuce Red specked romaine Green romaine Upright Radicchio Squash Yellow summer Green Zucchini Husk cherry About our vegetables. Here is our vegetable list for this year and we decided to keep it short and sweet. All of these vegetables produce extremely well and are resistant to disease and pests. Traditionally the date to plant in our zone 4b is around Memorial Day. The tomatoes like a balanced fertilizer. Mix some slow release 10 10 10, or well rotted compost in to the bed before planting. Some folks like to lay the plants down in a small trench leaving just the top of the plant exposed with the idea that roots will form along the buried stem and help in water and nutrient uptake. Peppers do not want a high nitrogen fertilizer. They prefer high phosphorous so a 5 10 10 will be better. Do not use manure or other nitrogen rich compost because the high nitrogen will cause the foliage to grow and the plant will not set fruit. The marketmore cukes can be planted in rows or trellised to save space. Keep a close eye on them and pick the fruit when they are about 8 inches in length. Lettuce is a cool crop and will do well in the spring and fall or in a garden that is situated next to a source of shade. Keeping the lettuce picked will help to even bolting. We decided to grow husk cherries again this year. These plants are similar and in the tomatoes family. They produce small fruit about the size of a cherry and they are covered by a paper like husk.