Plant Tip: Use a Date Calculator
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- Published on Tuesday, June 24 2014 07:21
- Written by BCG Editors
If you buy a packet of vegetable seeds from your local garden shop, it will most likely say how many days to harvest. So from your seed packet, you know that bean plants will take about 60 days from planting until the beans are ready to eat. Let's say you want to grow these beans for a specific date, like the picnic you're planing for the Fourth of July. Don't get a calendar and count backward. It's much easier to use a date calculator online! So if you want to pick and eat your pole beans on July 4, plant them around June 30 (that's this week!). I admit that 60 is an easy number to calculate, but other vegetable plants take much longer to mature – think pumpkins, which take 85 to 125 days – and the date calculator will be a big help!
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