Baby Food Garden

I really wanted to design a planting menu for new moms, so I got together with eco-mama, Anni Daulter and created this organic, first-foods garden for baby.
Organic Baby Food Garden
The acclaimed author of Organically Raised: Conscious Cooking for Babies & Toddlers, Anni helped me choose 7 tasty, organic varieties for wholesome, organic first-foods. Like me, she is passionate about helping more families live sustainably, and providing our kids with pure food. You can buy her book, and read more about Anni’s consultancy services here.
Anni’s Baby food collection contains 5 delicious organic varieties including Sugar-baby watermelon, Yellow crookneck and Butternut squashes, Striped Zucchini and Chantenay carrot. (Please note that Anni’s book is not included with the seed collection).
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Price: $19.99

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Babyfood Garden
Planting layout for a 4‘x4’ MinifarmBox™
Plant the variety and number of plants indicated on the layout. For a 4’x8’ MinifarmBox™ you can double up on everything. Train your watermelon to grow outside the box, so it takes up less space.

 

 

Watermelon

Sugar baby Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus)

Nothing says summer like sweet juicy watermelon. it’s an excellent source of vitamins C and A and makes a great healthy snack. Plant your watermelon at the edge of your MinifarmBox™ so they can trail over into the yard, leaving more growing space inside.
Sugar baby sets an abundance flavorful fruit on compact vines. Thick, near black rinds at maturity. The quality and sweetness of the flesh is good and the smaller overall size makes icebox cooling easy.
  • Planting Depth: 1/2″-1″
  • Soil Temp. for Germ.: 70-95°F
  • Days to Germ.: 3-8
  • Plant Spacing: 2′-3′
  • Days to Maturity: 80-90
  • Conditions: Full sun.
  • Frequent Water
Butternut

Butternut Squash (Cucurbita moschata)

One cup of this tender Annual contains almost 150% of a adults’s daily Vitamin A requirement in the form of beta-carotene. It also contains Vitamin C, potassium, almost 6 grams of fiber, manganese, omega 3 fatty acids, and several vitamin B’s.
This super productive Waltham strain yields gorgeous tan, bell-shaped fruits with bright orange, moist, sweet, smooth flesh. Delicious in soups, baked, or steamed. It also stores well into late winter.
  • Planting depth: 1″
  • Soil temp for Germ.: 65-90°F
  • Days to germ.: 3-7
  • Plant Spacing: 2-3′
  • Days to Maturity: 100-110
  • Conditions: Full sun.
  • Moderate water.
Carrots Red Core

Red Core Chantenay Carrots (Daucus carota var. sativus)

A member of the parsley family (you will see why when their feathery tops appear), Carrots were one of the earliest vegetables grown by man. They are rich in vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin K, potassium and beta carotene which our bodies can convert to vitamin A. Vitamin A helps with night vision.
A standard since 1929, Red Core is repeatedly rated one of best tasting carrot in our trials. This classic 5-7″ long orange Chantenay strain has been selected for consistently smooth sides that taper to a blunt tip.  It’s also a great winter keeper.
  • Planting Depth: 1/4-1/2″
  • Soil Temp. for Germ.: 50-80°F
  • Days to Germ.: 6-18
  • Plant Spacing: 2-4″
  • Days to Maturity: 65-75
  • Conditions: Partial Shade to Full Sun.
  • Moderate water
Yellow Crookneck Summer Squash

Yellow Crookneck Summer Squash(Cucurbita pepo)

Easy-to-grow and deliciously tender, this yellow summer squash has been an heirloom favorite for over 150 years. An abundant producer of yellow-skinned, white-fleshed fruit, they are perfect lightly steamed, with a little olive oil or butter and shredded basil leaves. Yum!
To get a head start on the season, Yellow Crookneck can be sown indoors in pots, 2-4 weeks before the last frost, then transplanted very carefully. Pick them young, when 6-8 inches long and harvest every other day when plant is producing heavily.
  • Planting depth: 1″
  • Soil temp for Germ.: 65-90°F
  • Days to germ.: 3-7
  • Plant Spacing: 3′
  • Days to maturity: 55
  • Conditions: Full sun.
  • Moderate water.
Cocozelle Zucchini

Cocozelle Zucchini (Cucurbita pepo)

Zucchini is such an amazingly versatile vegetable, and this ancient Italian favorite is both easy to grow and prolific for several months. Cocozelle’s soft flesh, with contrasting green stripes, has a slightly nutty flavor. The fruit, seeds and flowers are all edible, but what I like about this variety is that the fruits stay slender even at 12″.
These little beauties will be one of the first things you can harvest from your baby food garden and like all zucchinis, taste best when harvested young.
  • Planting depth: 1″
  • Soil temp for Germ.: 65-90°F
  • Days to germ.: 3-7
  • Plant Spacing: 3′
  • Days to maturity: 55
  • Conditions: Full Sun
  • Moderate Water

 

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