Here are some quick dates for planning put together by Rob Holgate. Not sure we will plant all of these but here is the info anyway. These are based on the average last frost date for STL of April 7th. These dates may precede some suggested dates by a week or so since we are working with raised beds which warm up more quickly in spring.
The week of:
Feb 7
Start eggplant, peppers inside
Feb 14
you could start some lettuce inside if you want to, to do higher maintenance early starters (watch for frost like a hawk) and then do another planting every 2 weeks.
Feb 21
start tomatoes inside
Feb 28
Plant outside: peas,
Mar 7
plant lettuce outside (and every 2 weeks after)
Mar 14
Plant outside: carrots, radishes, (and every 2 weeks after), also onions, chard
Apr 4 (week of average last frost)
Put tomatoes out, plant dill out
stop plantings of spinach
Apr 11
Plant out: beans (bush beans more every 2 weeks, pole beans bear continuously so only plant once), cucumbers
Apr 18
Put eggplant, peppers out
Plant out squash, melons
Apr 25
plant okra out
stop successive plantings of lettuce, radishes in a bit, carrots and bush beans can go on for 4 more weeks if anyone is still not tired of plantingThe harvest:
May 1
will have us in the middle of spinach, radishes, lettuce, chard harvest
Jun 1
will have us in the middle of carrots, chard, peas, summer squash, cucumbers and the start of the beans
Jul 1
will have us in chard, beans, squash, 1st eggplants, 1st peppers, 1st tomatoes
