MT: Planting a Successful Home Vegetable Garden

MontGuide For More Online MontGuides, Visit www. montana. edu/publications MT 199502 AG revised 6/07 This guide covers basic garden planning and growing transplants, plus includes a table with days to maturity, planting depth and spacing, projected yields... More

MontGuide For More Online MontGuides, Visit www. montana. edu/publications MT 199502 AG revised 6/07 This guide covers basic garden planning and growing transplants, plus includes a table with days to maturity, planting depth and spacing, projected yields and germination temperatures for 40 common vegetables. by Cheryl Moore-Gough, Extension Horticulture Specialist and R. E. Gough, Professor of Horticulture C-6 a combination of warm and cool white fluorescent bulbs to provide supplemental light or grow lights, which provide the full spectrum of light waves. Space light bulbs about 2 inches apart, center to center, and no higher than 18 inches above the plants. Leave them on from 12 to 16 hours each day after the seedlings have emerged. Grow peppers, eggplants, and tomatoes in flats and transplant them to the garden bare-root. Plant cell packs may also be used. Cucumber, squash, muskmelon and watermelon do not transplant well bare-root, so grow them in peat pots or jiffy pellets Less