This spring grow your own summer salad!

11 Mar 2020 by Ted Escobedo 3 min read

Spring in El Paso may be the most important planting season of the year. The time and climate are right for you to consider planting the seeds (or plants) now for an awesome homegrown salad come summer. If you have ever grown fruits or vegetables in your garden and help them ripen into a wonderful ingredient to use in your cooking, you know how satisfying it can be. If you haven’t, why not find out how green your thumb is by planting something delicious this season. Here are some of the vegetables you can plant in El Paso’s climate. (List courtesy of www.garden.org)

Cole crops like broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage can be direct seeded into your garden around February 9, assuming the ground can be worked, but it's better to start them indoors around January 12 and then transplant them into the garden around March 2. Do the same with lettuce and spinach.

Plant onion starts and potatoes around January 22. Sow the seeds of peas (sugar snap and English) at the same time. If the ground is still frozen, then plant these as soon as the ground thaws.

Do you want to grow tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants? Around March 18 you should start watching the weather forecast and, as soon as no frost is forecast, go ahead and transplant those into the ground.

Now, for all the summer vegetables like beans, cowpeas, corn, squashes, pumpkins, cucumbers, watermelons, gourds and sunflowers, you should plant those seeds directly into the ground around March 22, or if your soil is still very cold, once the soil is near 60° F in temperature.

For a great local gardening resource ask an El Paso Master Gardener, https://txmg.org/elpaso/ or visit: https://garden.org/apps/calendar/?q=El+Paso+Ap%2C+...

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