Some vegetables are best started indoors due to a short growing season. I live in the northeast and there is no way I could directly sow Tomatoes in my garden and expect to get any harvest. The season would be just too short.

However, there are many plants that I can sow directly into the garden  and get a harvest at a reasonable amount of time. If you want a quicker harvest, then sow indoors and move outdoors.

Here is a list of vegetables that can be sowed directly in the outdoor garden in the NorthEast:

1. Arugula (A good hardy plant, the young leaves taste like peanuts, the mature leaves taste like pepper)
2. Beans (I usually sow one week after memorial day)
3. Beets
4. Carrots
5. Collards (I joke saying that I could grow collards in the winter on concrete in New England)
6. Corn (I usually sow mid May depending on weather)
7. Cucumber
8. Endive
9. Kale (A good fall and winter plant)
10. Kohlrabi
11. Mustard Greens ( another good frost hardy plant)
12. Parsnips
13. Peas (I usually get two harvest during the season, after one is done I can replant and get another harvest)
14. Potatoes
15. Radishes (what to do with all of those radishes!)
16. Spinach ( whenever I get some free space, I sow in some spinach)
17. Summer Squash
18. Winter Squash
19. Turnips ( another plant that I never know what to do with all of them)

Go get your hands dirty in the Garden!

Save the Earth, plant a garden and eat locally!

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