Growing your own incredible edibles
Toronto Star / Mark Cullen / 11 June 2010
The phenomenon of growing veggies in your own yard just gets bigger. Last year Canadian seed rack sales grew by more than 35 per cent and this year is looking like a repeat performance.
My late father used to say that a seed packet and patch of soil was always your best bet for return on investment. How true.
While many readers will have planted tomatoes and peppers, it is not too late to get out there and plant and sow your heart out.
Where transplants are concerned, you can still purchase them at garden retailers and plant them with reasonable expectations that they will produce a crop this season. It is not too late for tomatoes, peppers or spring onions.
It is also possible to sow some plants from seed and expect a crop. Zucchini, other summer squash and winter squash will mature just fine if you seed them now. Also sweet corn (if you have the space), peas, beans, carrots, lettuce (leaf, head and bib) and beets will mature nicely, if a bit later than the earlier seeded crops.
There is plenty of time to put in two or three successive sowings of radish and leaf lettuce.
