Preparedness Seeds

Non-Hybrid - Long Term Storage Seeds

SWEET CORN, Golden Bantam 5 oz	TOMATO, Rutgers 5 g	LETTUCE, Paris Isl Cos 5 g
ONION, Utah Sweet Spanish 10 g	SWISS CHARD, Lucullus 10 g	CUCUMBER, Mktmore 76 10 g
SPINACH, Bloomsdale 10 g	PEA, Lincoln 10 g	CARROT, Scarlet Nantes 10 g
WINTER SQUASH, Waltham t 10 g	BEET, Detroit Dark Red 10 g	PEPPER, Yolo Wonder 5 g
SQUASH ZUCCHINI, Black Beauty 10 g	CABBAGE, Golden Acre 10 g	BUSH BEAN, Blue Lake 5 oz
RADISH, Champion 10 g

This can contains enough seeds to plant more than ½ acre of Garden. The seeds have been dried to their optimum moisture content to increase their storage life. Unopened seeds should store for four years or more depending on storage temperature. By keeping seeds cold, you can greatly extend their life expectancy. If you have room in your refrigerator or freezer, this is an excellent place to store the seeds. The next best place is in a cool room in your basement.

When choosing a location for your garden, find a place that is in the full sun and is well drained. A loamy soil is best with good texture. If you can, avoid dense clay soil. Make sure to plant your tall trellised plants on the North side so that they will not shade the shorter plants.

If you have limited or no yard space, you may want to consider planting your garden in flower beds, along fences, on patios in pots, in vacant lot, etc. Make sure to get permission if you do not own the land. You would be surprised how many people are willing to let you use a small plot of land in exchange for a few garden grown tomatoes.

Whether your soil is light and loamy or heavy clay, you may want to consider modifying it to be more conducive to gardening. For most soils, a good way to start is by adding 2 to 3 inches of organic material and then tilling it in. Good sources of organic material include manure, used hay, leaves etc. (Beware that some organic material may contain weed seed.) This will work best when the material has an opportunity to compost. If you use manure, make sure that it is at least 1 year old. Many soils will also need added fertilizer. We highly recommend that you get a soil test to find out which fertilizers you may need for your soil. The test costs only about $30 - $40 and will give you a good idea of where to start.

When planting your seeds, make sure to keep the soil moist. If you don not, seeds will have a hard time getting started. Sandy soils require more watering than clay soils. In arid climates, make sure to water more frequently. If the soil is sandy, it will require shallow, more frequent watering. Corn, Tomato, Pepper, Squash and Cucumbers need warm soil to germinate! You may even want to consider starting these plants indoors and then transplanting out of doors. After you transplant, you will want to increase the frequency and depth of watering, especially as you enter the hotter summer months. Adding organic material will greatly aid sandy soils to retain moisture. Onions, Spinach, Peas, Cabbage, Radishes, and Swiss Chard may be planted very early in the spring. Many can be planted again in the middle of the summer and harvested late into the fall.

Take care to cultivate and control weeds when they are small and easy to handle. Take care of insects early as well. Make sure to plant an area that you can handle. You may get a much better crop from a small area that you are able to care for than a large garden that goes to weeds and that you cannot properly water and cultivate.

Once you have harvested the last of your produce, you may want to consider a cover crop. A cover crop is very good for your soil if planted late in the season. A few good cover crops would include are clover, rye or oats. Once you have tilled under this years vines etc, plant the cover crop and let it grow. When spring rolls round again, till the cover crop under and plant your garden.

Pea - Lincoln
Lincoln is a premium-quality pea that can be frozen, canned and used fresh. It stands the heat better than most and resists wilt. The plant grows 18-30 inches in high and thus does not require staking. It produces 6-9 peas per well-filled pod. Expect peas that are exceptionally tender and sweet. Lincoln Peas are rich in minerals such as Calcium, Iron and Vitamins: A, B1, B2, C, and Niacin.

Planting: This pea thrives in the cool temperatures of spring and fall. Plant in the early spring - some time between March 15 and May 15. Press soil firmly over the seeds. Peas may be planted at 2 week intervals and in late summer for an extended crop. Plant plenty. You can never have too many of these deliciously sweet and tender treats!

Gardening Tips:
If you water by soaking, it will reduce danger of disease.
To save space and make harvest easier, sow double rows with a trellis in between.
Peas produce better if given something to climb on such as a trellis.
Peas should be harvested after the pods have completely filled out, but before they have lost the sheen of youth. If peas are allowed to fully mature, then they will loose their sweetness.

Seed Collection: Select dry long healthy pods and remove seeds when pods have dried completely. Store seeds in a cool dry area.

Radish: Champion
Champion is a great radish for eating fresh, in salads or used for garnishes. This plant produces large crunchy and very tasty cherry red radishes that are the size of a silver dollar. The bright red solid skin surrounds a crisp snow white flesh that has just the right amount of radish taste. Champion Radishes are a good source of Calcium, Iron & Vitamins: A, B1, B2, C, & Niacin.

Planting: It is no wonder that radishes often are the first crop that children grow and sow the seeds, then pull out the colorful, crunchy roots a month later. Plant in a mostly sunny spot anytime soil is workable from March to September. For mildest flavor, grow in the cool weather of spring or fall. Cover seeds with 1/4 inch of light soil.

Gardening Tips:
Use thinnings in salads.
For mild radishes, mulch and keep watered to speed growth.
For an extended harvest period, plant at two week intervals avoiding hot summer temperatures.
Test pick radishes for size to insure harvest when young and tender.
Radishes may be stored through the winter by covering the crowns of the plants with soil or by storing in a basement or root cellar covered in damp sand or leaves.

Seed Collection: Older plants should blossom and grow into stalks to produce high yields of seed. The seed stalk produces brown pods which contain the dark brown seeds. When seeds have matured and dried, separate chaff with your fingers and then collect and dry the seeds. Store seeds in a cool, dry area.

Onion: Utah Yellow Sweet Spanish
The Utah Yellow Sweet Spanish is a very large onion measuring up to 6 inches in diameter and weighing up to 2 pounds that is excellent for slicing. Its white flesh has a mild, sweet, delicious flavor. It is a very heavy producer and is a fair keeper. Onions may be eaten raw, cooked or used for seasoning any meal.
Planting:
Option #1: Start indoors 8-10 weeks before transplanting outdoors. When transplanting, clip green growth to 3 inches and plant 2 inches deep.
Option #2: Sow directly in garden when ground can be worked, placing 2-3 seeds per inch. Thin to 3 inches apart when plants are 6 inches tall.

Gardening Tips:
Fertile, moist soil enriched with compost is best for onion production.
Onions ward off many insect pests around lettuce, cabbage, and carrots.

If it doesn't rain, water once a week for about an hour or so and then pull up huge onions in the fall.

Use thinnings as green onions.

Harvest by pulling bulbs when tops are brown and dry.

To store, pick onions promptly when tops start to dry out, cure them in a hot dry place out of the sun for about two weeks and then keep them in a basement or root cellar for the duration of the winter.

Smaller bulb sets can be stored to replant next year.


Seed Collection: This onion is a biennial plant that produces a seed stalk the second year. Selected bulbs need to be kept cool and moist. Protect first year bulbs from winter freezing by burying in sand or leaving it in ground covered with heavy mulch. Seed heads form after summer growth. When seeds have matured and partially dried on the seed stalk, gather the seed before it falls to the ground. Complete the drying process at room temperature. Store seeds in a cool, dry area.

Spinach: Bloomsdale Longstanding
Bloomsdale Longstanding is a richly flavored spinach that is slower to bolt than other Bloomsdale types. Thick, crinkled, dark green leaves make it a favorite with gardeners everywhere. Though spinach is a cool-season crop, Bloomsdale Longstanding doesn't mind a little unseasonable heat and sun. The plants are very heavy-yielding over a long season, particularly in the spring. Spinach is a good source of Chlorophyll, Iron, and Vitamin C.
Planting: Sow directly outdoors in row as soon as ground can be worked. Place one seed every 2 inches and cover with soil. When plants are about 3 inches tall, thin them to 6 inches apart. Sow your spinach in the spring and then again in late summer. In mild winter areas, fall plantings will yield in early spring.

Gardening Tips:
Use thinnings in salads.

Sow every two weeks during the spring in order to extend harvest.

Harvest before flower stalk forms.

Harvest entire plants at soil line when outer leaves are 6 inches long or just cut away outer leaves as needed for continuous crop until hot weather.


Seed Collection: Allow several plants to produce flower seed stalks. Cut the mature spinach plants and dry them so that the seed will come off by rubbing them in the palm of your hand. Separate seed from chaff and store seeds in a cool, dry area.

Cabbage: Golden Acre
This early round head cabbage is easily grown and versatile in use. Heads are about 6 to 7 inches in diameter on compact plants about a foot high. Its firm, medium green head is excellent cooked or raw in stews and salads. Cabbage is a valuable source of Vitamins C&U.
Planting: Start seeds indoors five or six weeks before last frost using potting soil mixture. Harden plants for seven days before planting by setting them outdoors during the day. Cabbage plants like sunny locations. Firm soil over the seeds and keep moist.

*After transplanting into garden soil
Gardening Tips:
Do not plant in same place as previous year to minimize diseases.

Protect from insects.

Cut just above the lowest leaves and harvest when the head is firm. Continue to water and a second head will form. The secondary heads are very sweet and delicious. Cut and harvest when this new head(s) is about 2-3 inches in size.


Seed Collection: Golden Acre Cabbage is a biennial plant that produces a seed stalks the second year. Selected roots need to be kept cool and moist. Protect first year roots from winter freezing by burying in sand or leaving it in ground covered with heavy mulch. Seed heads form after summer growth. When seeds have matured and partially dried on the seed stalk, gather the seed before it falls to the ground. Complete the drying process at room temperature. Store seeds in a cool dry area.

Swiss Chard: Lucullus
Lucullus Swiss Chard is a vigorous upright plant, with heavily crumpled and savoyed light green leaves. This plant stands hot weather well and will produce until frost. Greens have a mild and sweet flavor and add texture to salads. They may also be cooked and served with butter as a nutritious side dish. The mid-rib can be cooked like asparagus and served with melted butter. Swiss Chard is a good source of Calcium, Iron & Vitamins: A, B1, B2, C, & Niacin.

Planting: Plant in a sunny location in spring as soon as the soil can be worked for a summer/autumn crop, mid to late summer for an autumn/spring crop. Keep soil moist until seeds start to grow. Sow very thinly in ordinary garden soil. As the seedlings grow, gradually thin out to 9 inches apart. The thinnings can be trimmed of their roots and cooked.

Gardening Tips:
Water freely through the season and harvest by picking a few leaves, snapping them off near the base of the plant, from several plants rather than completely stripping one.

If the plants are left to flower, the flower stalks can be cooked and eaten like sprouting broccoli.

In mild winters a mulch placed around the base of the plants may allow plants to over winter.


Seed Collection: Lucullus Swiss Chard is a biennial plant that produces a seed stalk the second year. When seeds have matured and dried on the seed stalk, separate the chaff with your fingers, then collect and dry the seed. Store seeds in a cool, dry area.

Beet: Detroit Dark Red
The Detroit Dark Red has globe-shaped scarlet roots with crisp, sweet, tender flesh. It is ideal for eating fresh, home canning or pickling. Its slender tops grow to be 13-16 inches tall and make delicious greens. This plant is a rich source of Iron, Calcium, and Vitamins: A, B1, B2, B6, C, and Niacin. One cup of greens has more iron than a hamburger patty.

Planting: Beets can be grown repeatedly during the season for a bountiful crop. They are a cool-weather crop and can germinate and grow in soil temperatures as low as 40 degrees. Sow in a row as soon as ground can be worked. After planting, press soil down firmly. They perform best in full sun and loose well-drained soil.

Gardening Tips:
When tops are about 6 inches tall, thin plants until roots are 4 inches apart.

Harvest when roots are 2-3 inches in diameter. Smaller plants can be harvested as part of the thinning process.

Make several plantings (3 week intervals are recommended).

Soak seeds for 24 hours before sowing to speed germination process.


Seed Collection: Beets are a biennial plant that produces a seed stalk the second year. Selected roots need to be kept cool and moist. Protect first year root from winter freezing by burying it in sand or leaving it in ground covered with heavy mulch. Seed heads form after summer growth. When seeds have matured and partially dried on the seed stalk, gather the seed before it falls to the ground. Complete the drying process at room temperature. Store seeds in a cool, dry area.

Carrot: Scarlet Nantes
Scarlet Nantes is a sweet and tender plant with a 5 ½ to 6 inch long cylindrical shape and blunt-tip with bright orange color throughout. They are a very popular variety of carrot for freezing or eating fresh or cooked.

Planting: Plant carrots directly into the garden as soon as the soil is workable. Cover seeds with 1/4 inch fine soil and press soil firmly over seeds.

Gardening Tips:
When plants are 2to 4 inches tall thin to 2 inches apart.

Plant carrots at 2 to 3 week intervals for continuous harvest. Planting can continue until mid July for fall and winter harvest.

This carrot will store for several months with cool temperatures and is high in vitamin content.

In areas with mild winters, fall planting is recommended.

Seed Collection:
Carrots are a biennial plant that produces a seed stalk the second year. Selected roots need to be kept cool and moist. Protect first year root from winter freezing by burying in sand or leaving it in ground covered with heavy mulch. Seed heads form after summer growth. When seeds have matured and partially dried on the seed stalk, gather the seed before it falls to the ground.

Lettuce Romaine: Paris Island Cos
Paris Island Cos produces long, spoon-shaped leaves that fold into an upright, loose head 8 to 10 inches tall. This lettuce is very crisp and tender and more nutritious than iceberg lettuce. It is tolerant to many lettuce diseases, is slow bolting and withstands warm weather better than most other lettuce. Romaine Lettuce is an excellent source of Chlorophyll, Iron, Calcium, and Vitamins: A, B1, B2, C, and Niacin.

Planting: Plant lettuce directly into the garden as early as the soil can be made fine and loose. Lettuce grows best during the cooler part of the growing season. Plant seeds every 2 inches, covering firmly with soil.

Gardening Tips:
Thin plants to 8 inches apart when they are 2 inches tall.

Lettuce needs plenty of moisture.

Well fertilized soil produces quickly grown, sweet, crisp Romaine lettuce.

Sow seeds every two weeks March to August for continued harvesting.

In very warm locations, fall crops may have to be started indoors since lettuce has a difficult time even germinating in hot weather. Transplant with care.


Seed Collection: Allow several plants to produce flower seed stalks. A dandelion type flower head is formed after the plant blooms. The seed will separate from the chaff by rubbing flower head with your fingers. Store seeds in a cool, dry area.

Bean: Blue Lake Bush 274
The Blue Lake Bush 274 is a vigorous, many-branched bush plant that produces a heavy yield of pods similar in appearance to Blue Lake Pole. The flavor of these 6 1/2 inch pods is excellent and they are ideal for table use, freezing or canning. This bean is disease resistant and high in vitamins A, B, and C and is a good source of fiber.
Planting: Plant seed when soil is warm and all danger of frost is past. Plant 2 seeds for every 4 inches. Plant outdoors in May through June after weather has warmed and all danger of frost has passed. Sow seeds 2 to 3 inches apart covering seeds with 1 to 1 1/2 inches of fine soil. Press soil firmly over seed.

Gardening Tips:
Soaking seeds overnight before planting will speed germination.

Water deeply by soaking soil.

Beans grow best in a sunny location, where the soil is warm, loamy and lightly fertilized.

Sow every 2 weeks until 8 weeks before fall frost.

Avoid working around beans when wet; this may spread diseases.

When weeding, hoe gently because beans are shallow-rooted.

Mulch plants only after thinning.

Cultivate shallow and frequently until flowers appear. Avoid disturbing plants after that time, as it could cause the blossoms to fall off.

Seed Collection: Select dry long healthy bean pods that rattle. Remove seeds when pods have dried completely. Store seeds in a cool, dry area.

Corn: Golden Bantam 12
In 1902, Golden Bantam was featured in a seed catalog. Before 1900 most people thought that yellow corn was fit only for animal feed. Within a few years, people in the United States began to favor yellow corn and the rest is history. The plants grow to about six feet and produce seven inch ears loaded with eight rows of sweet, plump, golden kernels.

Planting: Soil must be at least 65ºF to germinate. Be patient or you will waste a lot of seed! Plant in full sun and keep it watered. Corn is a wind-pollinated plant so plant in blocks several rows wide to ensure full ears. Sow seeds about one-half to one inch deep three to four inches apart. Space rows twenty four to thirty inches apart. Thin to six to twelve inches apart.

Gardening Tips:
Plant three to four seeds in the shape of a four inch triangle or square. There is an old saying that goes: One for the cutworm, one for the crow, one to rot, and one to grow.

If you start seed in trays or small pots in the hothouse, this will provide optimal germination conditions and therefore higher germination rates.

Control weeds weekly by cultivation to form hills around corn.

Pick ears when firm and silk turns sandy brown. The kernels should be milky and tender when tested with thumbnail.

Seed Collection: Leave a few long healthy cobs on the stalk until the kernels show denting. Pick the cobs and dry the kernels completely before removing them. Store seeds in a cool, dry area.

Cucumber: Marketmore 76
Marketmore 76 produces heavy, early crops of long cucumbers that can be eaten fresh in salads, diced or even pickled for dills when fruits are young. This cucumber is resistant to mildew disease.
Planting:
Option 1: For a late crop, plant in full sun, 5 seeds over a hill 12 inches tall and 2 feet across with well-drained soil. Plant ¼ inch deep and press soil firmly over seed.
Option 2: For an early crop, start seeds indoors 4-6 weeks before setting outside.

Gardening Tips:
For smaller gardens, plant beside a fence or trellis.

When plants are 2 inches tall, thin to the 3 strongest plants per hill.

Plant at 3-week intervals up to midsummer for fresh cucumbers all season.

Keep fruits picked.


Seed Collection: Separate seeds from flesh when cucumbers are very yellow and very ripe. Dry at room temperature. Store seeds in a cool, dry place.

Squash: Zucchini Black Beauty
Black Beauty is a Zucchini Squash that is delicious when sliced and served fresh, fried, steamed or simmered. Dark green fruits with creamy white flesh are best when 6 to 8 inches long. Zucchini is an excellent source of minerals, Iron, Calcium, and Vitamins: A, B1, B2, C, and Niacin.
Planting:
Plant after all danger of frost has past, in a sunny location. Plant 5 seeds spaced evenly over a hill 9 to 12 inches tall and 2 feet across. Cover seeds with 1/2 to 1 inch of fine soil well firmed down. When plants are 3 inches tall, thin by cutting to the 3 strongest seedlings per hill.

Gardening Tips:
Pick summer squash early and often. Not picking will stop production of plants.

Ready to harvest just after blossom falls from fruit and fruit can be easily dented with thumbnail.

Water soil when dry avoiding spraying foliage or blossoms.

vCut fruit carefully at stem when 8 inches long for best flavor, texture and continued harvest.

To avoid weeding, mulch heavily around plants and in the rows.


Seed Collection: Separate Zucchini seeds from flesh when Zucchini are very ripe and mature. Dry at room temperature. Store seeds in a cool, dry area.

Pepper: Yolo Wonder
Yolo Wonder is a hardy variety that produces a high yield of fruits that are square and short, with 4 lobes. Its sweet flesh is thick and dark green to red at full maturity. Fruit is very sweet when red. They can be roasted, stuffed and baked, added to salads, or sliced into strips for a crisp low-cal snack. This is a very nutritious vegetable that contains Vitamin A and more Vitamin C than an orange!

Planting: Plant indoors 7-8 weeks before the average last frost. Transplant after first true leaves open to a sunny location 3-4 weeks after the average last frost date when soil temperatures are at least 65 degrees or outside temperatures are at least 70 degrees.
*After transplanting into garden soil.

Gardening Tips:
Water lightly to keep soil moist.

Control weeds with cultivation or mulch.

The ideal time to pick the fruit is when the size is about 3-4 inches long and still green.

Cut off part of the stem along with the pepper fruit to avoid injuring the plant.


Seed Collection: Select a red, very mature pepper and remove seeds. Allow seeds to thoroughly dry on a paper tower or cloth.

Winter Squash: Waltham Butternut
Waltham Butternut is one of the most popular varieties of winner squash. Squash is a delicious vegetable that can be baked, boiled, steamed, fried, for frozen. This popular squash is easy to grow and stores well when mature. It is very productive and a good source of vitamin A.
Planting:
Plant after all danger of frost has past, in a sunny location, sow 5 seeds spaced evenly over a hill 9 to 12 inches tall and 2 feet across. When plants are 3 inches tall, thin by cutting to the 3 strongest seedlings in each hill.

Gardening Tips:
To avoid weeding, mulch heavily around plants and in the rows.

Do not be concerned if occasionally the first blossoms do not set fruit, squash is a very prolific plant.

Don't cut winter squash from the vine until firmly ripe (when you have a hard time making a dent in the shell with your thumbnail). Harvest before hard frost.

Water lightly to keep soil moist but do not over water.

Seed Collection: Save seeds from the winter squash and dry them at room temperature. Store seeds in a cool, dry area.


Tomato: Rutgers
Rutgers has proven itself for years to be highly productive of large, attractive fruits with thick, solid flesh. It has a superior flavor which is delicious in salads and unsurpassed for home canning. Tomatoes are an excellent source of Calcium, Iron, Potassium and Vitamins: A, B & C.

Planting: Start seed indoors in a sunny location 6 weeks prior to warm weather. Transplant outdoors in full sun when plants are 5-8 inches tall and there is no longer any danger of frost. Seed can be sown directly into garden when soil is warm. Tomatoes cannot tolerate frost.
*After transplanting into Garden

Gardening Tips:
To keep fruit clean and easier to pick, support plants with stakes or cages.

Tomatoes require at least an inch of water per week.

Double hill planting will also increase production. (Planting tomato starts 12 inches apart and hilling the dirt up around the plant about half way up.)

Control weeds with cultivation or mulch.

Pick when fruit turn red. In late fall before any frost, green tomatoes can be picked and ripened in a warm area.

Seed Collection: Select a red, very mature tomato and remove seeds, clean them and allow seeds to thoroughly dry on a paper towel or cloth.

Pea - Lincoln
Planting Depth	Seed Spacing	Row Spacing	Germination Temperature	Germination Time in Days	Number of Seeds Per Foot Row	Spacing After Thinning	Days to Maturity
1/2 to 3/4 Inch	1 to 2 Inches	14 to 18 Inches	40 to 85 degrees	7 to 15 days	12	Do Not Thin	60

Radish: Champion
Planting Depth	Seed Spacing	Row Spacing	Germination Temperature	Germination Time in Days	Number of Seeds Per Foot Row	Spacing After Thinning	Days to Maturity
1/4 to 1/2 Inch	1 Inch	14 to 18 Inches	40 to 85 degrees	7 to 15 days	12	2 to 4 Inches	25

Onion: Utah Yellow Sweet Spanish
Planting Depth	Seed Spacing	Row Spacing	Germination Temperature	Germination Time in Days	Number of Seeds Per Foot Row	Spacing After Thinning	Days to Maturity
1/2 Inch	1 Inch	18 to 24 Inches	40 to 75 degrees	10 to 15 days	9	2 to 3 Inches	115

Spinach: Bloomsdale Longstanding
Planting Depth	Seed Spacing	Row Spacing	Germination Temperature	Germination Time in Days	Number of Seeds Per Foot Row	Spacing After Thinning	Days to Maturity
1/4 to 1/2 Inch	1 Inch	14 to 18 Inches	40 to 85 degrees	7 to 15 days	12	6 to 8 Inches	45

Cabbage: Golden Acre
Planting Depth	Seed Spacing	Row Spacing	Germination Temperature	Germination Time in Days	Number of Seeds Per Foot Row	Spacing After Thinning	Days to Maturity
1/4 to 1/2 Inch	1 Inch	18 to 24 Inches	40 to 85 degrees	5 to 14 days	Transplant	18 to 24 Inches	65

Swiss Chard: Lucullus
Planting Depth	Seed Spacing	Row Spacing	Germination Temperature	Germination Time in Days	Number of Seeds Per Foot Row	Spacing After Thinning	Days to Maturity
1/2 Inch	1 Inch	18 to 24 Inches	35 to 70 degrees	7 to 10 days	8	8 to 12 Inches	50

Beet: Detroit Dark Red
Planting Depth	Seed Spacing	Row Spacing	Germination Temperature	Germination Time in Days	Number of Seeds Per Foot Row	Spacing After Thinning	Days to Maturity
1/2 to 3/4 Inch	1 to 2 Inches	14 to 18 Inches	40 to 85 degrees	10 to 20 days	12	2 to 3 Inches	60

Carrot: Scarlet Nantes
Planting Depth	Seed Spacing	Row Spacing	Germination Temperature	Germination Time in Days	Number of Seeds Per Foot Row	Spacing After Thinning	Days to Maturity
1/4 to 1/2 Inch	1 Inch	14 to 18 Inches	40 to 85 degrees	12 to 18 days	12 to 18	2 Inches	95

Lettuce Romaine: Paris Island Cos
Planting Depth	Seed Spacing	Row Spacing	Germination Temperature	Germination Time in Days	Number of Seeds Per Foot Row	Spacing After Thinning	Days to Maturity
1/4 to 1/2 Inch	1 Inch	14 to 18 Inches	35 to 75 degrees	7 to 15 days	12	6 to 8 Inches	75

Bean: Blue Lake Bush 274
Planting Depth	Seed Spacing	Row Spacing	Germination Temperature	Germination Time in Days	Number of Seeds Per Foot Row	Spacing After Thinning	Days to Maturity
1 to 1 1/2 Inches	3 Inches	18 to 24 Inches	55 to 75 degrees	7 to 10 days	9	8 to 12 Inches	63

Corn: Golden Bantam 12
Planting Depth	Seed Spacing	Row Spacing	Germination Temperature	Germination Time in Days	Number of Seeds Per Foot Row	Spacing After Thinning	Days to Maturity
1 to 1 1/2 Inches	4 to 6 Inches	30 to 36 Inches	50 to 85 degrees	7 to 10 days	1	8 to 12 Inches	82

Cucumber: Marketmore 76
Planting Depth	Seed Spacing	Row Spacing	Germination Temperature	Germination Time in Days	Number of Seeds Per Foot Row	Spacing After Thinning	Days to Maturity
1/2 to 1 Inch	6 to 8 In Hill	30 to 36 Inches	60 to 75 degrees	7 to 14 days	3	3 to 4 per hill	67

Squash: Zucchini Black Beauty
Planting Depth	Seed Spacing	Row Spacing	Germination Temperature	Germination Time in Days	Number of Seeds Per Foot Row	Spacing After Thinning	Days to Maturity
1/2 to 1 Inch	6 to 8 In Hill	36 to 48 Inches	60 to 95 degrees	10 to 14 days	1	2 to 3 per hill	62

Pepper: Yolo Wonder
Planting Depth	Seed Spacing	Row Spacing	Germination Temperature	Germination Time in Days	Number of Seeds Per Foot Row	Spacing After Thinning	Days to Maturity
1/4 Inch	2 Inches	24 to 30 Inches	60 to 85 degrees	14 to 21 days	Transplanted	18 to 23 Inches	75

Winter Squash: Waltham Butternut
Planting Depth	Seed Spacing	Row Spacing	Germination Temperature	Germination Time in Days	Number of Seeds Per Foot Row	Spacing After Thinning	Days to Maturity
1/2 to 1 Inch	6 to 8 In Hill	48 to 60 Inches	60 to 95 degrees	10 to 14 days	1	2 to 3 per hill	90