When to Stop Cutting Asparagus in Texas, and How to Keep the Spears
Stop cutting when most of the spears coming up are thinner than a pencil. That is the signal, not a calendar date.
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Stop cutting when most of the spears coming up are thinner than a pencil. That is the signal, not a calendar date.
Sow hardy Asian greens such as bok choy, tatsoi and mizuna in New Brunswick from early May, then again from late July into mid-August for the fall crop.
Sweet corn is ready 60 to 90 days after planting, and the planting itself waits for warm soil, not for the last frost.
Stop cutting when most of the spears coming up are thinner than a pencil. That is an object, not a date, and it shuts the season down in any Tennessee bed.
Pick fast, cool-season leaf greens: mizuna, tatsoi, komatsuna, baby bok choy and mustard types.
Most Nebraska sweet corn is ready 60 to 90 days after planting, and soil temperature, not the calendar, sets the planting date.
Most Nebraska sweet corn is ready 60 to 90 days after planting, and soil temperature, not the calendar, sets the planting date.
Nevada has no single sowing date for Asian greens. They are cool-season crops, so the work happens in two windows: early spring, as soon as the soil can…
In Montana, sweet corn is ready 60 to 90 days after it goes into soil that has reached 60 F, and that soil arrives well after the last frost, not on it.
Choose fast, cool-season leaves for Nevada: baby bok choy, tatsoi, mizuna, komatsuna and loose-leaf mustards.