The calendar doesn’t lie, but the weather hasn’t been fully convinced yet that it’s spring. One day will produce sunshine and 70, while the next will bring 40’s and blustery wind/rain. You can rest assured that it won’t be too long before spring-time temperatures catch up to the spring-time season.
We are already experiencing enough warm days with sunshine that we need to pull some plants out of the greenhouse just about every day. Broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts and salad crops out tend to get soft and leggy under these conditions. When the sun pops out a greenhouse can get hot in a hurry. With the cooler outdoors and a light-to-moderate wind action exercising their little stems, these vegetable starts toughen up so that they will transition out into the garden without any trouble.
Well, we have arrived at planting time for those early garden vegetables. In fact, because of the way the weather has been, we have missed the first week or so of early planting. It’s time to get those green salad-type plants in the ground. As you can see by the photos we are fully stocked. Here’s our list of spring vegetables to plant in Oklahoma right now:
- Broccoli ‘Emperor’ & ‘Premium Crop‘
- Cauliflower ‘Snowball‘
- Brussels Sprouts ‘Long Island Imp.‘
- Collards ‘Vates‘
- Spinach ‘Bloomsdale‘
- Romaine Lettuce
- Green Leaf Lettuce ‘Grand Rapids‘
- Red Leaf Lettuce ‘Red Sails‘
All of these varieties are well suited to north-eastern Oklahoma, and are recommended by the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service.
Come out or give us a call this week end. We would love to talk to you and get some of these beautiful plants in your hands and into your garden. Maybe we could even swap Collard recipes.
The salads and greens plants are $1.00 each, and we do charge county/state sales tax. If you want a large quantity of plants then we can haggle over bulk pricing when you get here.