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Asparagus
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Start from seed/crowns,transplant seed after 1yr, 2yr crowns probs not worth it, no cutting @least 2 yrs after planting,male varieties morevigorous
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Beans
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Bush or pole,do not soak seeds,require warm soil (esp. lima), harvest missed pods for shellouts or dry beans
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Snap Beans
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Green, wax, purple - quick crop - stringless - harvest before seeds develop - more than one planting per season
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Lima Beans
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Delay planting til soil really warm,avoid wet soil,can germinate in cell packs+transplant,large seeded v 'baby', pole varieties take longhot season
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Pole Beans
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Yield later, over longer period, require staking-trellising, runner beans beautiful-edible, some may need stringing
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Beets
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Have>1 seed per dried fruit,can eat thinnings,transplant well from cell packs,roots get tough w/age,"bleed"when cut,cook whole then slice
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Cole Crops
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Cabbage,broc,caulif,cool season,button heads-too long in seed flats,protect from rabbits
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Broccoli
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Cancer preventive compounds, develop side shoots, extend harvest, transplant for spring crop, either seed/transplants for fall
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Brussels Sprouts
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Best grown as fall crop,spring plants mature in hot weather, remove lower leaves and growing tip late
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Cabbage
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Greed,red,savoy-flattened round pointed-early planting misses most of cabbage worms, cut head high will regrow sprouts,heads split after heavy rain
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Cauliflower
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Needs to grow fast,held too long, forms "buttons",more frost sensitive,tie up wrapper leaves to blanch,selfblanching types,green-purple varieties
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Chinese Cabbage
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Separate varieties for spring/fall, sow early for late spring harvest,napa,michili,bok choy,bolts to seed in hot and long days
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Collard and Kale
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Related greens crops, collard nonheading cabbage, harvest leaves from bottom as they mature, kale may overwinter, "walking stick" variety
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Kohlrabi
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Cabbage relative w/swollen stem,green/purple varieties,tastes like mild turnip,harvest while still small (1-3in), make succession plantings
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Ornamental Cabbage, Kale
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Only develop bring colors in cool weather,grow tall w/tufts @ top planted in spring, kale has frillier leaves,Bacillus thuringiensis spray neccessary
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