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EAST TEXAS VEGETABLE PLANTING GUIDE
Texas Agrilife Extension Service
M.L. "Marty" Baker
Associate Professor & Extension Specialist
Commercial Fruits and Vegetables
Texas A & M University
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DATE TO
PLANT·
FALL
SEED/ PLANTS
PER 100 ft.
INCHES OF
PLANTING
DISTANCE
1 oz.
COUNTY EXTENSJON AGENT·
#OF DAYS
BEFORE
HARVEST
YIELD PER
100'
AVERAGE
DAYS OF
HARVEST
18
730
30 lbs.
60
12 lb.
3-4
4S-60
120 lbs.
14
12 lb.
4-6
60-70
lSO lbs.
30
8/1
1/4 lb.
3-4
80
so lbs.
40
2/20
8/1
1 oz.
2
S0-60
lSO lbs.
30
Broccoli
2/lS
7/lS
1/4 oz.
14-24
60-80
100 lbs.
40
Brussel Sprouts
2/15
7/10
1/4 oz.
14-24
90-100
7S lbs.
21
Cabbage
2/15
8/1
1/4 oz.
14-24
60-90
lSO lbs.
40
Cabbage, Chinese
2/lS
8/1
1/4 oz.
8-12
6S-70
80 hds
21
Carrots
2/20
7/1
1
12 oz.
2
70-80
100 lbs.
21
Cauliflower
2/15
7/1
1/4 oz.
14-24
70-90
CROP
DATE TO
PLANT·
SPRING ·
Asparagus
3/1 - 15
11/lS
Beans, Bush
3/10
8/1
1
Beans, Pole
3/10
8/1
1
Beans, Lima .
3/10
Beets
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14
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Chard, Swiss
2/15
7/1
2 oz.
6
4S-SS
7S lbs.
40
Collard,· Kale
2/15
7/1
1/4 oz.
8-16
S0-80
100 lbs.
60
Corn, Sweet
3/1
6/1
3-4 oz.
12-18
70-90
10 dz.
10
Cucumber
4/1-lS
-
V2 oz.
24-28
S0-70
120 lbs.
30
Eggplant
4/1-lS
8/1
1/8 oz.
18-24
80-90
lOOlbs
90
Garlic
2/lS
11/lS
1 lb.
2-4
140-lSO
40 lbs
-
Kohlrabi
2/15
7/lS
1/4 oz.
4-6
SS-7S
7S lbs.
14
Lettuce
3/1
7/lS
1/4 oz.
2-3
40-80
so lbs.
21
Muskmelon
3/15
-
12 oz.
24-38
8S-100
100 frt.
30
Mustard
3/15
7/lS
1/4 oz.
6-12
30-40
100 lbs
30
Okra
4/15
-
2 oz.
24
SS-6S
100 lbs.
90
Onion (plants)
2/15
9/1
400-600 plants
2-3
80-120
100 lbs.
40
Parsley
3/1
7/15
1/4 oz.
2-4
70-90
30 lbs.
90
Peas, English
1/15
7/1
1 lb.
1
SS-90
20 lbs.
7
Peas, .southern
4/15
7/1
V2 lb.
4-6
60-70
40 lbs.
30
Pepper
4/1
7/1
1/8 oz.
18-24
60-90
60 lbs.
90
2/1-15
6/15
6-10 lbs.
10-lS
7S-100
100 lbs.
4/1 - 5/1
-
75-100 plants
12-16
100-130
100 lbs.
-
Pumpkin
5/15
8/1
V2 oz.
36-48
7S-100
100 lbs.
-
Radish
3/1
7/1-10/10
1 oz.
1
2S-40
100 bchs
7
Spinach
2/1-3/lS
8/1
1 oz.
3-4
40-60
3 bus.
40
Potatoes, Irish
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100 lbs.
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Potatoes, Sweet
1
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#OF DAYS
BEFORE
HARVEST
YIELD PER
100'
AVERAGE
DAYS OF
HARVEST
18-38
50-60
150 lbs.
40
oz.
24-48
85-100
100 lbs.
-
7/15
1/8 oz.
18-38
70-90
100 lbs.
40
2/20
7/15
1hoz.
2-3
30-60
50-100 lbs.
30-40
Watermelon
(Transplant seeds)
3/15
-
1f2
oz.
36-96
80-100
40 frt.
30
Watermelon
(hybrids seedless/
triploid, bush types)
3/25
7/15
112
oz.
36-96
75-100
40 frt.
30
CROP
DATE TO
PLANTSPRING
DATE TO
PLANTFALL
SEED/ PLANTS
PER 100 ft.
Squash, summer
3/1 - 15
7/15
1 oz.
Squash, Winter
4/1 - 15
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Tomato
3/1 - 15
Turnip
112
INCHES OF
PLANTING
DISTANCE
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Vegetable Varieties
Asparngus - UC72, Jersey Giant, UCl57
Benns, bush - Contender, Tender Crop, Top Crop, Green Crop,
Improved Pinto, Bush Blue Lake274, Lake Superior, Jumbo
Benn, Field Dry - Dwarf Horticulture Pinto, Pindak, Pinto, Idaho 114,
Olathe
Benn, Horticulture - French or Taylor's Horticulture
Benn, Mung - Mung Bean, Texstar
Benn, Snnp, Flnt Pod - Greencrop Bush, Jumbo, Romano, Romano II
Benn, Snap, Yellow - Goldcrop, Improved Golden Wax, Pencil Pod
Black Wax
Benns, Pole - Kentucky Wonder, Dade, Blue Lake, Pole
Benns, Limn - Ford Hook 242 (bush lima), Jackson Wonder (bush),
Henderson Bush, Thorogreen, Florida speckled pole lime, Butterpea
Dixie White (small white round limn bean)
Beets - Monoking Explorer, Tall Top, Green Top, Early Wonder, Ruby
Queen, Firechief
Broccoli - Green Comet, Green Hornet, Packrnan Southern Comet,
Green Duke, Bravo, Bravo, Galaxy, Citation, Premium Crop
Brussel Sprouts - Long Island Improved, Prince Marvel
Cnbbnge - Ruby Ball, Green Boy, Rio Verde, Gounnet, Video,
Superette, Ambrosia, Bravo, Market Prize, Solid Red, Sanibel, Savoy
King, Solid Blue 760, Stonehead
Cnbbnge, Chinese - Jade Pngota, Michilli
Cantaloupe (muskmelon) - Pronto, Caravello, Sunex-7030, Durango,
Primo, Ambrosia, Golden Perfection, HiLine, Israeli, Magnum 45,
Mission, Perlita, TAM Dew, TAM Uvalde, Top Flight
Carrots - Danvers 126, Nantes, Dart, Gold King, Imperator 58,
Orlando Gold, TAM Gold Spike, Trophy
Cnuliflower - Imperial I 0-6, Snow Crown, Snowball Y Improved
Celeriac - Large Smooth Prague, Marble Ball
Chard, Swiss - Ford Hook Giant, Ruby, Rhubarb, Chard Ruby
Chives - Chinese Chives, Garlic Chives
Collard (Knie) - Dwarf Blue Curled, Georgia Southern, Blue Max
Corn, Sweet - Calumet, Capitan, Crisp-n-Sweet, Honeycomb, Merit,
Snowbelle, Sugar Loaf, Sweet G-90, Symphony, white Lightnin',
Wonderful, Kandy Korn, Seneca Sentry, Summer Sweet
Cucumber - Slicers - Ashley, Poinsett, Explorer, Burpless, Dasher II,
Sweet Slice, Sweet Success
Cucumber - pickling - Carolina, Salty, national Pickling, Calypso,
Liberty, TAMU Triple Cross, Triple Crown, Triple Match
Eggplant - Black Beauty , Early Long Purple, California White, Black
Magic, Florida Market, Florida HiBush, Jchibon, Long Tom, Tycoon
Garlic - California White, California Early, Elephant, French mild,
Mexican Pink, Texas White
Kohlrabi - Early White Vienna, Early Purple Vienna
Lettuce - Great Lakes Types, Red Sails, Red Salad bowl, Salad Bowl
Mustard - Tender Green, Florida Broadleaf, Green Wave, Large
Smooth Leaf, New Zealand
Okra - Clemson Spineless, Emerald, Lee
Onion (bulb)Ycllow grano 502, Yellow Granex, Eclipse, Grano,. Red
Granex, Midstar, Perla, Yule, Burgandy, TAMU Supersweet (I 015Y),
1025Y, Vega;Grccn: Evergreen Bunching, Beltsville Bunching, Whi te
Knight, Crystal Wax, Ringmaster
Parsley - Evergreen, Moss Curled, Banquet, Plain Ital ian
Peas, English - Little Marvel, Green Arrow, Sugar Snap, Wanda
Peas, Southern - Texas Pink Eye, Blackeye #5, Brown Sugar Crow,
Burgandy, Champion, Cream 40, Knuckle Purple Hull, Miss. Silver,
Mopod (BVR), Pink Eye Purple Hull, Corona (BVR)
Pepper, Sweet- Jupiter, Keystone, Resistant giant, Yolo Wonder,
Tower, Pip, Emerald giant, Gideon, Shamrock, Big Bertha, Gypsy,
Summer Sweet
Pepper, Hot - Hungarian Wax, Long Red Cayenne, Red Chili, Jalapeno,
Portugal, TAMU Mild, Serrano, Cayenne, Hidalgo, Anaheim Chili
Potatoes, Irish - White - Kenebec, Superior; Red - Red LaSoda; Rus ~,
- Norgold Russet
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Potatoes, Sweet - Beauregard, Jewel, Cordner, Topaz, Excel
Pumpkin - Lady Godiva, Triple Treat, Big Max, Big Tom, Mammoth ,
Funny Face, Small Sugar, Jack O' Lantern, Munchkin, Jack Be Little
Radish - Cherry Belle, Globemaster, Cherry Glo, Scarlet Globe, Red
Prince, Champion, Summer Cross, White Icicle
Spinach - Ocho, Green Valley II, Ozarka II
Squash, summer- Yellow Strnightneck - Hyrific, Butterbar, Multipik,
Smoothie; Yellow Crookneck - Dixie Hybrid, Yellow Sumr Crookneck;
Zucchini - Hyzini, Aristocrat, Tucco, Gold Rush, Blondie, Goldfinger,
Starrs, Gr Hybrid; Scallop - Earl's White Bush Scallop, Bennings Green
Tint, Patty Pan, Peter Pan, Scallopini
Squash - Winter Butternut - Butternut 23, Improved Butternut,
Waltham Butternut, Buttercup, Spaghetti; Acorn - Table Queen, Ebony,
Royal, Table King
Tomato - Large Fruit - Carnival, Celebri ty, Cannen, Big Set, Better
Boy, Floradade, Bingo, Jackpot, Mountain Pride, Pik red, Big Early;
Small Fruit - Small F.ry, Presto, Porter improved, Red Cherry, Cherry
Supreme; Orange Skin - Sunray, Golden Jubilee, Yellow Pear;
Canning Types - Campbell 28, Roma, Chico Grande, Chico III, Heinze
1370
Turnip - Purple Top, White Globe, Toyko Cross, Shogun, Royal Globe
Turnip, Greens -All Top, Tyfon, Topper, Purple Top
Watermelon - Crimson Sweet, Jubilee, Charleston Grey, Tendoraw,
Calhoun Gray, Royal Jubilee Hybrid, Royal Sweet, Prince Charles,
Allsweet, Mirage, Tendersweet (orange flesh)
Watermelon, bush - Bush Jubilee, Bush Sugar Baby, Dwarf, Burp Bush,
bush Charleston Gray
Watermelon, Smnll - Petite Sweet, Sugar Baby, Tiiple-X, Supersweet,\
Queen of Hearts, King of Hearts, Seedless Jubilee, Triple Sweet Seed ' ..____