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Season and Location

✿ Carrots can be planted from the spring into mid-summer

✿ Carrots like full sun, but can tolerate some shade.

Container Gardening

1 Carrots grow best in loose, well-drained soil or raised beds. The seeds are best planted into the garden at a depth of about ¼ to ½ inch. Carrots do not like to be transplanted.

Have you ever thought of paring carrots and beets together in one dish?  It sure makes one colorful combo that we would argue that delivers on equally as exciting flavors.  Enjoy!

When and How to Harvest

Season and Location

✿ Beets can grow in full or partial sun; they need at least 3 hours of sunlight per day.

✿ Try planting beets in a sunny site along a walkway; they are colorful and grow easily.

1 Beet seeds will germinate (begin to grow) best if you directly seed them into your garden and then keep the soil moisture level the same—do not let it dry out and then rewet.

2 Expect germination in 10 to 15 days and harvest within 50 to 60 days.

This recipe is great for spicing up those fresh summer greens and these tangy flavors are sure to do just the trick!  Keep it easy and refreshing with this 4 step 4 ingredient recipe. 

When and How to Harvest

❁ Overall, the beans are ready to pick when they are about as thick as a pencil and before the pods fill out.

❁ Harvest them by holding the plant with one hand and pulling the beans off with the other hand.

Season and Location

✿ Plant bush beans in full sun. Some shade is okay for bush beans, but yield (amount grown) will be reduced.

✿ Water early in the day

Container Gardening

1 Bush and pole beans are from the wax bean family and are easy to grow—great for beginning gardeners. The big difference between them is that pole beans need support to grow.

2 Plant the seeds in the garden about 1 inch deep. The seeds are best planted directly into the garden.