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Vegetable Gardening
Max Apton
Farm Manager, Amawalk Farm
Owner, The Farmer’s Garden
About the Gardener
• I am a Westchester native
• Soil conditions
• Access to machinery
Carrots,
March-May,
spinach and Seed June-October
July-August
beets
Lettuce heads May-July, Late-
March-May,
(romaine, TP August to
July-September
butter, etc) October
June,
Radishes and March-May,
Seed September-
peas August-October
November
Onions and
TP April June-August
potatoes
Kale, cabbage,
TP April, May, July May-December
broccoli
Tomatoes,
Late-July to first
peppers, TP May
frost
eggplant
Sunlight and Space Needs of Common Garden Plants
Tomatoes,
eggplant, At least 8 hours No Yes
peppers
Potatoes,
Yes, though not
zucchini, At least 8 hours No
preferable
squash
Carrots, beets
At least 6 hours No No
and roots
• Kid-friendly activities:
• root vegetables
• snacking!
Advanced Activities for Kids
and Teens
• For the older children:
Fast-release Slow-release
Nutrient What It Does
Sources Sources
Responsible for Alfalfa meal, fish
Legumes, green
plant vigor, fertilizer,
Nitrogen manures and
foliage and blood/crab/feath
compost
protein synthesis er meal
Soft-rock
Flower and fruit. Animal manure,
Phosphorous phosphate, bone
Photosynthesis. compost,
meal
Roots, plant Wood ash, Sul- Greensand,
Potassium
immunity po-mag azomite, granite
Flavor and Pulverized Compost,
Calcium
overall strength limestone gypsum
Photosynthesis
Dolomitic lime, Compost, kelp
Magnesium and healthy
Sul-po-mag meal, greensand
growth
Protein/enzyme Elemental sulfur,
Sulfur Gypsum
production sul-po-mag