This document provides planting instructions and information for a summer/fall garden for heat-loving plants. It recommends seeding peppers, eggplant, tomatillos, ground cherries, and cape gooseberries in March with bottom heat. Beans, squash, cucumbers, amaranth, and corn should be seeded in May. Details are given on planting dates, varieties, and care for different heat-loving vegetables including peppers, tomatillos, beans, squash, cucumbers, artichokes, amaranth, and more.

1. The Heat Lovers
Summer/Fall Garden
with Carolyn Herriot

2. The Heat Lovers:
Seeded in March:
Peppers (bottom heat)
Eggplant (bottom heat)
Tomatillos (bottom heat)
Ground cherries (bottom heat)
Cape Gooseberries (bottom
heat)
Basil
Tomatoes
Seeded in May:
Beans - bush & pole
Squash - summer & winter
Cucumbers - bush & pole
Amaranth
Corn
More basil!

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22. The hot peppers ie. Habanero, Scotch Bonnet, Cayenne, Jalapeno
take the longest to germinate and need the most heat to grow.
Therefore they grow more slowly than less hot varieties.
All peppers ripen to red, which is the time to collect ripe pepper
seeds.

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30. Watch out for whiteflies with tomatillos.
Homemade sticky traps work well and fast!

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38. Beans -
Bush
‘Maxibel filet’ - haricot vert
‘Dragon tongue’ - good snap & dried bean
Pole
‘Painted Lady’ Runner beans- white & scarlet
flowers
‘Lazy Housewife’ snap beans- incredible
yields
‘Gramma Walters’ - good snap, dried
cranberry bean

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58. The squash
Summer-
Zucchini
Pattypan scallop
Crookneck
Tromboncino
Winter-
Acorn
Buttercup
Butternut
Delicata
Hubbard
Pumpkins
Red Kuri
Turk’s Turban
Spaghetti

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67. Globe Artichokes - ‘Green Globe’

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72. Purple Amaranth -
definitely an ornamental edible!

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76. Cucumbers - seeded in May in
individual pots. (Squash and artichokes
hate root disturbance).
Bush cukes grow from bushy vines
‘Japanese’ mini cukes are perfect for
containers.
Lemon cukes need climbing support.
Long English cukes need good support

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