The Best Asian Greens for California
Across frost-free coastal and southern California, the best Asian greens are the cool-season types: bok choy, tatsoi, mizuna, komatsuna and choy sum.
Home & garden, state by state
Across frost-free coastal and southern California, the best Asian greens are the cool-season types: bok choy, tatsoi, mizuna, komatsuna and choy sum.
Delaware soil reaches 60 F well after the last frost, so the frost date is the wrong starting gun for sweet corn.
Stop cutting when most of the spears coming up are thinner than a pencil. That is an object to look for, not a date to circle.
On the south coast, sow hardy Asian greens such as bok choy and tatsoi outdoors from mid-March under cover, then again from late summer into early fall.
Sweet corn goes in when the soil says so, not the calendar: about 60 F, a point Connecticut reaches well after its last spring frost.
Sweet corn in Colorado is ready about 60 to 90 days after planting, and planting waits on the soil, not the calendar.
Sweet corn is ready 60 to 90 days after planting, and the planting day is set by the soil, not the frost calendar.
Nothing in the verified material behind this page covers insects, so there is no month-by-month pest calendar here, and one won’t be improvised.
Cut nothing for the first two seasons. Harvest starts in year 3, and the bed is not touched until then.
Sweet corn is ready roughly 60 to 90 days after planting, and the exact day comes from the plant: pick when the silks are dry and brown, the husks are…