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Can anyone tell me what the normal growing season is for vegetable gardens? Can you get 2 harvests of vegetables in your back yard in one year? In Wisconsin, we can only get one harvest. We are coming down in June for a week to scout around to see of we want to move there and whether all of my research is accurate. The Greenville area seems very nice. We will be retiring in about 5 years and we are worn out from the winters up here and do not want to wait much longer.
Last edited by greatscott; 01-29-2023 at 01:19 PM..
Reason: Accidently posted before I completed my questions.
We have a nearly year-round growing season here. I'll be planting peas in mid-February. Tender crops generally go in mid to late April. Summer can get too hot for some veggies, but the heat lovers will flourish. Around mid-August, I put in cool weather plants like collards, Brussels sprouts, and broccoli. I've harvested broccoli as late as Thanksgiving. The collards will go all winter long, although they got nearly wiped out by rare single digit temperatures over Christmas. They're still alive, though, and slowly developing new leaves.
I'm still getting the hang of gardening here. We have poor, heavy clay soil. Our best results have been green beans, collards, okra, zucchini, and hot peppers. Tomatoes have been a bust for ten years now due to blight and wilt, which are soil-borne diseases. The one time I tried broccoli it did well, too, and we grow tons of basil.
I agree with "UpstateJohn" and would like to add that looking for help and being rude are not the best accompaniments; next you will be pointing out that tomatoes are a fruit. However, check out this site to learn about growing all types of plants and more specifically to your point, vegetables in our area. I am a certified Master Gardener from Clemson. https://hgic.clemson.edu/all-factsheets/
we can get two full rounds of tomatoes if we start seeds indoors in March or buy transplants early spring (last frost ~Apr 15).
Getting a full spring/summer harvest and a full fall harvest of veggies is not a prob at all.
Fall collards can last through entire winter
Yeah, I get tomatoes and peppers pretty much all summer long and into the fall.. Oftentimes, up into November. Though this past year, things seemed to peter out a little bit early, as we all discussed in another topic.. Fall just seemed to arrive early last year.
Rule of thumb is that I plant on tax day. Usually we have the last frost done by then.
WE have a very long growing season here. You can look up your zip code to see what hardiness zone you'll be in. I'm in 8a and I've been able to harvest the Sun Sugar/ Sun Gold cherry tomatoes from May- June thru late November which are grown in a south facing yard ( the micro-climate might be a zone 9). They seem to be more tolerant of the 100 degree days of July than the full size Cherokee Purple which I also grow. I use shade cloth over my tomatoes during the worst heat.
Make sure to plant a basil plant next to each of your tomato plants to avoid tomato hornworms : ) Ever since I started doing this my tomatoes haven't been touched by tomato hornworms and I have an abundance of basil throughout the season and usually dig up a plant and bring it inside so I have it during the winter too.
You can also grow a wide variety of fruit trees here... and asparagus and artichokes ....and all kinds of berries!
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