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Vegetable Seeds

Days to maturity is the number that decides whether a variety works where you live. Count backwards from your average first frost date, add a couple of weeks for the shorter days of autumn, and anything that does not fit is a spring crop instead.The second thing to...

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Days to maturity is the number that decides whether a variety works where you live. Count backwards from your average first frost date, add a couple of weeks for the shorter days of autumn, and anything that does not fit is a spring crop instead.

The second thing to read is growth habit. Determinate tomatoes set one concentrated crop and suit containers and canning; indeterminate ones keep going until frost and need real support. Bush beans crop in a fortnight; pole beans crop for months but need eight feet of trellis.

Most vegetable seed stays viable for several years in a cool dry place — tomatoes and beans for four or five, onions and parsnips for barely one, so buy those fresh each season.

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