Onions, beans, tomatoes tops for garden
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NEWARK Onions, green
beans, and tomatoes are
three of the most productive
crops you can grow in the
small home garden. With
proper care at planting time
and minimal attention
during the growing season,
they’ll produce abundantly
right up to the first hard
frost in the Fall.
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One of the first crops that
can be set out in the Spring is
onions, but there’s still
plenty of tune to plant some
if you haven’t done so yet,
says Delaware Extension
vegetable specialist Dr.
Michael Orzolek. He
recommends starting with
sets or plants, rather than
seeds. Sets, which are easy
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to come by, are actually
small onions that were
started the previous year.
Look for “Ebenezer” and
“Yellow Globe” - two of the
most popular varieties for
the home garden.
Onions need fertile soil to
produce well, says Orzolek.
Use 5-10-10 or 10-10-10 fer
tilizer at planting and
sidedress plants with
nitrogen about six weeks
later. This fertilizer is
needed to produce a good
green color and rapid
growth.
If you intend to harvest
your onions as dry bulbs,
plant sets three to four in
ches apart and 1-M> to two
inches deep. For scallions,
plants or sets should be l-%
to two inches apart and three
to four inches deep. Pull
green onions whenever they
reach edible size, starting
with largest ones first.
Harvest your dry-bulb crop
after the majority of the tops
have dried and are bent
over.
For a satisfying yield,
green or wax beans are one
of the easiest and quickest
crops to grow, says the
specialist. Most beans
require little space to grow
and are adaptable to a wide
range of soil conditions. It
takes only 50 to 60 days from
seed to produce a good crop
of snap beans.
You have a choice between
pole or bush type plants,
when it comes to beans.
There are differences in
taste, as well as differences
in length of harvest period
for each type.
One planting of pole beans
will give you a two to three
month harvest, as opposed to
only three weeks for bush
beans. Pole beans are also
somewhat easier to pick,
because you don’t have to do
so much bending over. But
bush beans have the ad
vantage of taking up less
space, and with several
plantings about 10 days
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continuous harvest over a
three to four month period.
One of Orzolek’s favorite
bush bean varieties is
“Tenderette” - a velvety
green-podded bean. But for
people interested in trying
something a little different,
the specialist suggests
trying some purple-podded
beans. These grow on a bush
type plant that produces a
tender, stringless purple pod
that turns deep green when
it’s cooked. He considers
them very delicious.
If you’re wondering how
many beans to plant, by the
way, figure on about a pound
of beans from every two feet
of row.
To get the most mileage
out of your tomatoes this
Summer, the vegetable
specialist recommends
planting several varieties
with different maturity
dates. There are a number of
good ones to choose from, all
resistant to fusarium and
verticullium wilts.
-For canning as well as
fresh eating, a good all
purpose variety is Rutgers.
The plant yields late, but
once it starts producing
you’ll get an abundant
harvest of nice firm six to
eight ounce fruit right up to a
hard frost.
Two mid-season, all
purpose varieties are
Campbell 28 and Heinz 1350.
Both were originally
developed for commercial
canning use, so they’re
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These will give you extra
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fresh eating. Just be
prepared for a little less
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you’re used to with smaller
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will be smaller and you may
find the plants less resistant
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problem that the home
gardener can avoid by
careful cultural practices is
blossom end rot. Mulch
plants well and maintain an
even soil moisture over the
growing season, and you
shouldn’t lose any fruit to
this physiological condition.
A final word of advice
from the vegetable
specialist: we’ve had an
unusually cold Spring and
some people have lost plants
they set out or started early.
Orzolek says not to get
discouraged if you have to
replant. There’s still ample
time to enjoy a bountiful
harvest. The growing season
has just begun.