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one handy chart, the Almanac Vegetables Growing Guide summarizes
when start seeds indoor and outdoors, the soil temperature needed to
germinate, the plant’s hardiness level, when to fertilize, and when
to water.
Of course, see the master Planting Calendar for more specific dates by YOUR zip code for all your common vegetables.
Vegetables Growing Guide
Note: Each of the vegetables listed below links to an individual vegetable plant guide that covers sowing to growing to harvest!
Vegetable
Start Seeds Indoors (weeks before last spring frost)
Start Seeds Outdoors (weeks before or after last spring frost)
If you’re a beginner, it’s helpful to know which vegetables are easiest to grow from seed.
Plus, growing from seed is less expensive, offers more variety, and has
a higher success rate. Our list below includes vegetable seeds that can
be sown directly into your garden soil. Some are also suitable for
transplanting.
Should I Grow Vegetables from Seed or Transplants?
There’s nothing wrong with starting your garden from small plants
which you purchase (called “transplants”)—in fact, many people do. There
are a handful of vegetables that can be challenging to grow from seed
and are best purchased as young plants from a garden store/nursery
(tomatoes, for example, can be finicky to start from seed). Transplants
also allow you to get a head start on growing plants such as tomatoes,
peppers, and eggplants, which require a long, warm growing season.
That said—unless you have a short growing season—many vegetables are easy enough to grow from seed.
Here are a handful of the benefits of starting from seeds:
Seeds are much cheaper, especially in greater
quantities. They often keep at least a couple years, and they can be
shared with friends and neighbors, too.
Seeds offer much more variety than the often limited choice of transplants in a nursery. Just take a look at these seed catalogs and let the dreams begin!
Some vegetables do not survive being transplated from one place to another.
Starting from seed means that you can sow seeds directly in the
garden, which opens the door to growing crops such as corn, melons,
squash, beans, and peas, which simply do not grow as well when
transplanted from one place to another.
Starting plants from seed means you can ensure they are healthy and strong right from the start.
10 Easiest Vegetables to Grow Yourself
This is not a complete list, by any means, but these are considered
some of the easiest and most common vegetables that can be grown
at home.
1. Lettuce
We’ve never known a garden that cannot grow lettuce.
Lettuce can be sown directly in your garden bed, or started indoors
for transplanting. It’s one of the few crops that can be grown all year
in our climate, but in hot weather it should be shaded and harvested at
smaller sizes. Lettuce growth slows in shade; it is also slower to go to
seed, or “bolt,” which means that it can be harvested for longer.
An endless assortment of leaf shapes and shades of green and red
means you’ll never get tired of growing new lettuce varieties. Leaf
lettuces can be cut as they grow, and you can enjoy several harvests
from the same plant by just snipping off what you need each time.
If you want full heads of romaine and head lettuce to develop, thin
them. Allow for 8 to 10 inches between plants. As you thin young plants,
save the delicate small leaves for salads.
Beans grow even in fairly poor soils, because they fix the nitrogen
as they go! Bush varieties don’t require trellising, but pole varieties
provide a more extended harvest. In cool areas, snap beans are easiest.
In hot areas, lima beans, southern peas, and asparagus beans are also
very easy to grow. All bean plants are fast growers and thrive in warm,
moist soil.
Plant peas as soon as the soil can be worked—2 weeks before the average last spring frost
for your region, if possible. To harvest a continuous supply of peas
during the summer, simultaneously sow varieties with different maturity
dates. Then sow more seeds about 2 weeks later. Continue this pattern,
sowing no later than mid-June.
Pole beans require some sort of structure to climb! Photo by Smereka/Shutterstock.
4. Radishes
Radishes can be harvested in as little as 24 days after planting, and
can be inter-planted with slower-growing vegetables. You can plant
radishes as soon as you can work the soil in the spring.
Sow each seed 2 inches apart or more, or thin them to this spacing
after they sprout. Cover the seeds with about half an inch of compost
or soil.
Here’s a tip: Radish seeds are natural companions to carrots. Mix
radish seeds with carrot seeds before you sow, especially if your soil
tends to develop a tough crust. The quick-to-sprout radishes will push
up through the soil, breaking it up for the later-sprouting carrots. As
you harvest the radishes, the carrots will fill in the row.
Photo by DigiCake/Shutterstock. Photo by Udra11/Shutterstock.
5. Carrots
We’re including carrots only because they’re super easy to grow as long as they’re planted in loose, sandy soil during
the cooler periods of the growing season—spring and fall (carrots can
tolerate frost). Not all carrots are orange; varieties range in color
from purple to white, and some are resistant to diseases and pests.
Many beginners find their carrots are short and deformed. This is
typically due to poor, rocky soil, so it’s important to provide soft,
loose soil that drains well. Mix in some sand and really loosen it
up. Also, it is essential to THIN carrot
seedlings to the proper spacing so that they’re not overcrowded. Be
bold! Thin those seedlings if you want carrots to form properly.
Prepare in advance for cucumbers; amend the soil with a fertilizer
high in nitrogen and potassium to support the plant’s large yields. If
possible, plant cucumbers in the sun next to a fence. The fence will
serve as support for climbing and act as a shelter. Or plant them near corn. The corn will trap the heat that cucumbers crave and also serve as a windbreak.
Like it or not, super-nutritious kale is very hardy and can grow in a
wide range of temperatures. It can be harvested at many different
stages, and the buds and flowers are edible, too! Mustards and collards
are closely related to kale and are also easy to grow.
Set out plants any time, from early spring to early summer and kale
will grow until it gets too hot. Plant again the fall, especially if you
live in the southern United States. Another nice thing about kale is
that it only gets sweeter after being hit by a couple frosts. Try kale
baked, stir-fried, or steamed. Enjoy in salads, smoothies, omelettes,
casseroles, or wherever you’d use spinach.
Swiss chard—or simply “chard”—is a member of the beet family. It does
well in both cool and warm weather. It is a nutritional superfood, high
in vitamins A, C, and K as well as minerals, phytonutrients, and
fiber—plus, its rainbow of colors are beautiful!
You haven’t lived until you’ve tasted beets you’ve grown yourself. We
mean it! Nothing compares to garden-fresh beets, boiled or roasted
until tender.
The quirky seed capsules contain two or three beet seeds, so the
seedlings will always need to be thinned. Sow the seed capsules about an
inch deep, and 4 inches apart.
Harvest the roots at any time up until they’re the size of a tennis
ball. While you’re waiting for them to plump up, why not try a few of
the leaves? They can be used just like spinach, giving you two harvests
from one plant.
Summer squash and zucchini like well-composted soil and need plenty
of space (plant them 3 to 6 feet apart in warm soil and lots of
sun.) Soon enough, you’ll have so many zucchinis, you’ll be leaving them
on neighbors’ doorsteps! Always water at the soil level—not the
leaves—to avoid powdery mildew.
The above crops are some of the easiest vegetables you can grow, but
there are many, many more veggies for you to try! Check out our complete library of Growing Guides for advice on planting all the popular vegetables, fruit, herbs, and flowers.
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step-by-step series designed to help you learn how to garden! Visit our
complete Gardening for Everyone hub, where
you’ll find a series of guides—all free! From selecting the right
gardening spot to choosing the best vegetables to grow, our Almanac
gardening experts are excited to teach gardening to everyone—whether
it’s your 1st or 40th garden.
How to Protect the Buddha’s Dispensation
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An initiative by SBS Kathina sponsor group 2021,
Guardians of the Sāsana
Date: 13 March 2021 (Saturday)
Time: 2.00 pm to 4.30 pm (MYT)
Dhamma Talks by:
Āyasmā Aggacitta
Topic: Guardians of the Sāsana Then and Now
Āyasmā Ariyadhammika
Topic: Are Monastics Protecting or Corrupting the Sāsana?
A challenge to Folk Buddhism is the danger of succumbing to the onslaught of
those personal and cultural factors of the wider society that cause the distress
and suffering authentic Buddhism is intended to resolve in the first place.
Rather than following the direct path advanced by Adept Buddhism, unwary
followers of Folk Buddhism may come under distracting or unsavory and
opprobrious influences, inimical to the teachings, practices and values of
authentic Buddhism. Folk Buddhism might begin to assume much of the
materialism, acquisitiveness or intolerance from the embedding culture, and, in
the worst case, even think some of this belongs to the Buddha’s teachings. It
may even come under manipulation of special interests who exploit Folk
Buddhism, for instance, of commercial interests or governments who seek to
control public opinion to legitimize the illegitimate. It is the Adept Buddhist’s
role to tether Folk Buddhism, as firmly as possible, to an authentic Buddhism.
It is the Folk Buddhist’s role to tame, as well as it can, the unwholesome
influences of the broader society.
For instance, in moments of distraction, Folk Buddhists may lose their
exemption from the allure of the consumer culture, which deliberately
stimulates irrational, emotional and delusive aspects of human cognition, and
subdues clear rational thinking, in order to manipulate patterns of
consumption. From the authentic Buddhist perspective, such consumerism is
an, uh, abomination. Modern consumerism is of an order that goes beyond
satisfying human need to feeding human greed, which Buddhism teaches will
never ever be satisfied and will in fact plunge all those singed by it into
bottomless depths of human misery.
Conclusion
In case we don’t yet have enough metaphors floating around: The negotiations
of Dharma pull in every direction like unruly horses. The adepts are the
charioteer whose arms take up the reins of authority to steer the chariot of the
Sasana over an unsteady landscape in the authentic direction, toward the
Awakening of the entire society. The reins are implicit in the Triple Gem. The
charioteer is there by virtue of the Sangha and the Buddhist community that
sustains him. The chariot manifests the communal meaning of our practice and
understanding. And the Folk Buddhists are passengers hanging on, and
sometimes falling out, during a rather bumpy ride. This is the Buddha-Sasana.
I can scarcely do justice to the many conversations that have at different times
and places constituted the Buddha-Sasana, the living organism of Dharma, but
I hope in this chapter to have illustrated how an authentic Buddhism manages
to shine through in the midst of evolution and variation. I think the tools are in
place for a critical understanding of what current trends contribute to or
undermine the overall health of the Sasana in the great confluence of
Buddhism and folk culture currently playing out in the Land of the Fork.
As we listen in on these conversations in the twenty-first century, we at first
see a Buddhist landscape extremely diverse, constituting an impossible range
of doctrinal positions, beliefs, practices and rituals, cultural influences, and
manifold religious admixtures, with little apparent consensus and a very weak
adept head. For the newcomer to Buddhism, it is easy to see how one might
throw one’s hands up in despair and perhaps entertain the hope that Baha’i or
Sufism is easier to sort out. I hope to have shown that there is far more order
here than at first appears, that malleability is a remarkable feature that has
always characterized the Sasana, even while the Sasana has retained the
ancient integrity of the Buddha’s Dharma-Vinaya. I hope that the individual
explorer of this landscape might find, through the understandings developed
here, a personal dwelling place, somewhere between the mountains of the
adepts and the plains of the folk, attaining something between a panoramic
view of the entire unfolding Sasana and the spiritual seclusion of the narrowly
targeted Buddhist Path, that suits her particular aspirations.
