EAST TEXAS VEGETABLE PLANTING GUIDE
Crop SPRING FALL SEED Inches # of Yield Average Planting Planting or of days Per days of date date PLANT Planting before 100 Harvest per Distance harvest feet 100 feet Asparagus Mar. 1-15 Nov. 15 1 oz. 18 730 30 lbs. 60 Beans, Bush March 10 Aug. 1 ½ lb. 3-4 45-60 120 14 lbs. Beans, Pole March 10 Aug. 1 ½ lb. 4-6 60-70 150 30 lbs. Beans, Lima March 10 Aug. 1 ¼ lb. 3-4 80 50 lbs. 40 Beets Feb. 20 Aug. 1 1 oz. 2 50-60 150 30 lbs. Broccoli Feb. 15 July 15 ¼ oz. 14-24 60-80 100 40 lbs. Brussel Sprouts Feb. 15 July 10 ¼ oz. 14-24 90-100 75 lbs. 21 Cabbage Feb. 15 Aug. 1 ¼ oz. 14-24 60-90 150 40 lbs. Cabbage, Feb. 15 Aug. 1 ¼ oz. 8-12 65-70 80 21 Chinese hds. Carrots Feb. 20 July 1 ½ oz. 2 70-80 100 21 lbs. Cauliflower Feb. 15 July 1 ¼ oz. 14-24 70-90 100 14 lbs. Chard, Swiss Feb. 15 July 1 2 oz. 6 45-55 75 lbs. 40 Collard, Kale Feb. 15 July 1 ¼ oz. 8-16 50-80 100 60 lbs. Corn, Sweet March 1 June 1 3-4 oz. 12-18 70-90 10 dz. 10 Cucumber April 1-15 ------½ oz. 24-28 50-70 120 30 lbs. Eggplant April 1-15 Aug. 1 1/8 oz. 18-24 80-90 100 90 lbs. Garlic Feb. 15 Nov. 15 1 lb. 2-4 140-150 40 lbs. - Kohlrabi Feb. 15 July 15 ¼ oz. 4-6 55-75 75 lbs. 14 Lettuce March 1 July 15 ¼ oz. 2-3 40-80 50 lbs. 21 Muskmelon March 15 ------½ oz. 24-36 85-100 100 30 frt. Mustard March 15 July 15 ¼ oz. 6-12 30-40 100 30 lbs. Okra April 15 ------2 oz. 24 55-65 100 90 lbs. Onion (plants) Feb. 15 Sept. 1 400- 2-3 80-120 100 40 600 lbs. plants Parsley March 1 July 15 ¼ oz. 2-4 70-90 30 lbs. 90 Peas, English Jan. 15 July 1 1 lb. 1 55-90 20 lbs. 7 Peas, Southern April 15 July 1 ½ lb. 4-6 60-70 40 lbs. 30 Pepper April 1 July 1 1/8 oz. 18-24 60-90 60 lbs. 90 Potatoes, Irish Feb. 1-15 June 15 6-10 10-15 75-100 100 --- lbs. lbs. Potatoes, April 1 ------75-100 12-16 10-130 100 --- Sweet May 1 plants lbs. Pumpkin May 15 Aug. 1 ½ oz. 36-48 75-100 100 --- lbs. Radish March 1 July 1 - 1 oz. 1 25-40 100 7 Oct. 10 bchs. Spinach Feb. 1 - Aug. 1 1 oz. 3-4 40-60 3 bus. 40 Mar. 15 Squash, March 1- July 15 1 oz. 18-36 50-60 150 40 Summer 15 lbs. Squash, Winter April 1 ------½ oz. 24-48 85-100 100 --- 15 lbs. Tomato Mar. 1-15 July 15 1/8 oz. 18-36 70-90 100 40 lbs. Turnip Feb. 20 July 15 ½ oz. 2-3 30-60 50- 30-40 100 lbs. Watermelon March 15 ------½ oz. 36-96 80-100 40 frt. 30 (transplant seeds) Watermelon March 25 July 15 ½ oz. 36-96 75-100 40 frt. 30 (Hybrids, Seedless/Triploid, Bush Types)
Vegetable Varieties:
VEGETABLE VEGETABLE VARIETY Asparagus UC 72, Jersey Giant, UC157
Contender, Tender Crop, Top Crop, Green Crop, Improved Pinto, Bush Blue Lake 274, Lake Superior, Beans, bush Jumbo
Beans, Field Dry Dwarf Horticulture Pinto, Pindak, Pinto, Idaho 114, Olathe
Bean - Horticultural French or Taylor’s Horticultural
Butterpea, Dixie Speckled, Dixie White (small white, Bean - Lima round lima bean)Ford Hook 242 (bush lima) Bean - Lima Henderson Bush , Jackson Wonder, Thorogreen
Bean - Lima, Pole Florida Speckled
Bean - Lima, Pole Sieva Carolina (early)
Bean - Mung Mung bean, Texstar
Bean - Pole Kentucky Wonder, Dade, Blue Lake, Pole
Bean - Snap, Flat Pod Greencrop Bush, Jumbo, Romano, Romano II
Bean - Snap, Flat Pod Roma II
Bean - Snap, Green Oval Pod Bush Blue Lake 274
Bean - Snap, Green Oval Pod Contender
Bean - Snap - Green Oval Pod Derby
Bean - Snap - Green Oval Pod Tendergreen
Bean - Snap - Green Oval Pod Topcrop
Bean - Snap - Pole Blue Lake Pole
Bean - Snap - Pole Jade
Bean - Snap - Pole Kentucy Wonder
Bean - Snap - Yellow Goldcrop, Improved Golden Wax, Pencil Pod
Bean - Snap - Yellow Black Wax
Beet MonoKing Explorer, Tall Top
Beet Green Top, Early Wonder, Ruby Queen, Firechief
Broccoli Green Comet, Green Hornet, Lucky
Broccoli Green Magic
Broccoli Packman Southern Comet, Green Duke, Bravo
Broccoli Galaxy, Citation, Premium Crop
Brussel Sprouts Long Island Improved, Prince Marvel
Cabbage Ruby Ball, Green Boy, Rio Verde, Gourmet, Video
Cabbage Superette, Ambrosia, Bravo, Market Prize, Solid Red
Cabbage Sanibell, Savoy King,
Cabbage Solid Blue 760
Cabbage Stonehead
Cabbage - Chinese Jade Pagoda
Cabbage - Chinese Michili
Cantaloupe (Muskmelon) Pronto, sunre-7042, Sunex-7030, Durango, Primo,
Cantaloupe (Muskmelon) Ambrosia, Golden Perfection, HiLine, Israeli
Cantaloupe (Muskmelon) Magnum 45, Mission, Perlita, Top Flight
Cantaloupe (Muskmelon) Caravelle
Cantaloupe (Muskmelon) TAM Dew
Cantaloupe (Muskmelon) TAM Uvalde
Carrot - Fresh Danvers 126, Nantes, Dart, Gold King, Imperator 58
Carrot - Fresh Orlando Gold, TAM Gold Spike, Trophy
Carrot-Fresh Purple/Maroon Dragon
Cauliflower Imperial 10-6, Snow Crown, Snowball Y Improved
Celeriac Large smooth Prague, Marble Ball
Chard, Swiss Ford Hook Giant, Ruby, Rhubard, Chad Rudy
Chives Chinese Chives, Garlic Chives
Collards (kale) Dwarf Blue Curled, Vates, Georgia Southern, Blue Max
Corn - Sweet Kandy Korn, Silver Queen
Corn - Sweet Merit
Corn - Sweet G-90, How Sweet It Is
Cucumber - Pickling Carolina, Salty, National Pickling, Calypso
Cucumber - Pickling Liberty, TAMU Triple Cross, Triple Crown, Triple Moch
Cucumber - Slicer Burpless, Dasher II, Explorer
Cucumber - Slicer Ashley, Poinsett 76
Cucumber - Slicer Sweet Slice, Sweet Success(AAS)
Eggplant Black Magic, Florida Market, Florida Hibush
Eggplant Black Beauty, Early Long Purple, California White,
Eggplant - Oriental Ichiban, Long Tom, Tycoon
California White, Calirofnia Early, Elephant, French Mild, Garlic Mexican Pink, Texas White Kale Dwarf Curled Vates
Kohlrabi Early White Vienna, Grand Duke Hybrid(AAS)
Lettuce - Butterhead Buttercrunch(AAS)
Lettuce - Leaf Great Lakes Types and Leaf Types - Ruby, Red Sails
Lettuce - Leaf Red Salad Bowl
Lettuce - Leaf Salad Bowl
Lettuce - Romaine Paris Island
Tender Green, Florida Broadleaf, Green Wave, Large Mustard Smooth Leaf, New Zealand Okra Clemson Spineless
Okra Emerald
Okra Lee
Okra Cajun Delight
Onion...Bulbing, Short Day, Red Skin Yellow Grano 502, Yellow Granex, Red Burgundy
Onion...Bulbing, Short Day, WhiteSkin Eclipse, Red Grano, Red Granex, White Granex(PRR*)
Onion...Bulbing, Short Day, Yellow Skin Granex, Midstar, Perla, Yula, Burgandy
Onion...Bulbing, Short Day, Yellow Skin TAMU Supersweet, 1015Y, 1025Y, Granex 33 (PRR*)
Onion--Bulbing, Short Day, Yellow Skin Texas Grano 1015Y (PRR*)
Onion...Bulbing, Short Day, Yellow Skin Texas Grano 502(PRR*)
Onion...Bunching (Scallions) Vege Green: Evergreen Bunching, Beltsville Bunching,
Onion Transplants Short, Immediate, Long White Knight, Crystal Wax, Ringmaster
Parsely Evergreen Moss Curled, Banquet, Plain Italian
Pea - Edible Podded Dwarf Gray Sugar, Sugar Ann
Pea - Edible Podded Sugar Bon, Sugar Snap (AAS)
Pea - English Little Marvel, Green Arrow, Sugar Snap, Wando
Pea - Southern Texas Pink Eye, Blackeye #5, Brown Sugar Crowder,
Pea - Southern Burgandy, Champion, Cream 40, Knuckle Purple Hull,
Pea - Southern Miss. Silver, Pink Eye Purple Hull BVR, Mopod (BVR)
Pea - Southern Corona (BVR)
Pepper - Extremely Hot Small Cayenne, Small Serrano
Pepper - Hot Chile Anaheim Chili, Big Jim
Pepper - Hot Long, Smooth Cayenne Large Red Thick
Pepper - Very Hot Habanero
Pepper - Hot Long, Smooth Hungarian Wax, Long Red Cayenne, Red Chili,
Pepper - Hot Jalapeno, Hot Portugal, TAMU Mild, Seranno, Cayenne
Pepper - Hot Hidalgo, Anaheim Chili
Pepper - Hot short, Medium Hot Jalapa, Hot Jalapeno
Pepper - Hot Short, Mild Pungency TAMU Mild Jalapeno
Pepper - Mild Chile TAMU Mild Chile-2
Pepper - Pimento Pimiento
Pepper - Sweet Bell Bell Tower, Big Bertha, Bell Tower, Corabelle, Gypsy
Pepper - Sweet Bell Jupiter , Keystone Resistant Giant, Yolo Wonder
Pepper - Sweet Long Sweet Banana
Potatoes, Irish White Kenebec, Superior - Red: Red Lasoda Russet: Norgold
Potatoes, Sweet Beauregard, Jewel, Cordner, Topaz, Excel
Pumpkin Big Max or Big Mac, Connecticut Field
Pumpkin Lady Godiva, Triple Treat, Big Max, Big Tom
Pumpkin Funny Face, Jack-B-Little, Jack O' Lantern, Munckin
Pumpkin mall Sugar, Spirit Hybrid (AAS)
Radish Cherry Belle, Globemaster, Cherry Glo, Scarlet Globe
Radish Scarlet Knight, Red Prince, Champion, Summer Cross
Radish White Icicle, Daikong
Rutabaga American Purple Top
Southern Pea California #5
Southern Pea Cream 40
Southern Pea Zipper Cream
Southern Pea Texas Pinkeye
Spinach, Fall, Savoy, Home Garden Coho, Green Valley II, Ozarka II, Samish
Spinach , Summer - Yellow Straightneck Hyrific, Butterbar, Early Prolific, Multipik, Smoothie
Squash - Summer Yellow Crookneck Dixie Hybrid, Yellow Summer, Crookneck, Pavo
Hyzini, Arisocrat, Tucco, Storres Green Hybrid, Gold Squash - Summer, Zucchini Rush, Blondie, Goldfinger Earl’s White Bush Scallop, Bennings Green Tint, Patty Squash - Summer, Scallop Pan, Peter Pan, Scallopini Butternut 23, Improved Butternut, Waltham Butternut, Squash - Winter - Butternut Buttercup, Spagetti Squash - Winter Acorn Table Queen, Ebony, Royal, Table King
Sweet Potatoes Beauregard
Swiss Chard Lucullus, Bright Lights, Rhubard Chard or Ruby
Tomato Canning Campbell 28, Roma, Chico Grande, Chico III, Heinz 1370
Tomato Early Bingo (VFFTASt) , Carnival (VFNT), Celebrity (VFNT)
Tomato Early Amelia & Solar Fire, Sunchief, SunLeaper,
Tomato Early Sunpride, Florida 47 & 91, Top Gun
Carnival, Clebrity, Carmen, Bigset, Better Boy, Foradade, Tomato Large Gator, Bingo, Jackpot, Mountain Pride, Pik Red, Big
Early, BHN444 Tomato Orange Skins Sunray, Golden Jubilee, Yellow Pear
Small Fry, Presto, Porter Improved, Red Cherry, Cherry Tomato Small Supreme Tomato Small to Medium Size Fruit Porter , Roma, Cherry & Grape, Tomatillo, Yellow Pear
Purple Top, White Globe, Tokyo Cross, Shogoin, Royal Turnip Globe Turnip, Greens All Top, Tylon, Topper, Purple Top
Crimson Sweet, Jubilee Charleston Gray, Tendersweet, Calhoun Grey, Royal Jubilee Hybrid, Royal Sweet, Prince Watermelon Charles, Allsweet, Mirage, Tendersweet (orange flesh), Yellow Flesh Bush Jubilee, Bush Sugar Baby, Dwarf, Burpee’s Bush, Watermelon, bush Bush Charleston Gray Petite Sweet, Sugar Baby, Triple-X, Supersweet, Queen of Watermelon, Small Hearts, King of Hearts, Seedless Jubilee, Triple Sweet
Seedless Watermelon - Hybrid Jamboree, Ole, Sentinel
Watermelon - Small-fruited Mickeylee
Watermelon - Seedless Millennium, Sweet Slice, Tri-X 313, Triple Crown