Summer Salsa

Organic Salsa

Nothing says Summer like a fresh bowl of zesty Salsa. And these easy to grow organic varieties will fill this much loved dish with intense flavor. Think tangy tomatoes, spicy and sweet peppers, green onions and cool, fragrant cilantro. Show me the chips! Plant some basil and oregano and you also have a Pizza garden!

As with the Cash Crop garden, I didn’t include Tomatoes in this collection because they’re tricky to grow from seed, especially for beginners. Buy 4” seedlings at your local nursery. The best heirloom tomato varieties for Salsa include Amish Paste, Black Plum, Blush and Arkansas traveler.
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The Summer Salsa Collection contains 5 delicious organic varieties including Red Ruffled Pimiento, Tomatillo Verde, Early Jalapeno, Bunching Onions and Cilantro Santo.

Summer Salsa
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 or plant two planting menus.

Pimiento

Red Ruffled Pimiento (Capsicum annuum)

A favorite sweet pimiento with thick, juicy walls. this hardy producer is great for adding sweetness to your Salsa. Yields big clusters of peppers, 8-10 per plant. Fruits are oval, with ridges, similar to a pumpkin’s shape. Sow seeds indoors 6-8 weeks before the last spring frost. Transplant when soils are warm, spacing seedlings 12-18 inches apart. Enrich soil with mature compost. Needs warm conditions day and night to germinate and fruit well. Harvesting tips. Pick at peak of color.

  • Planting Depth: 1″
  • Soil Temp. for Germ.: 60-80°F
  • Days to Germ.: 7-15
  • Plant Spacing: 6″-10”
  • Days to Maturity: 55-65
  • Conditions: Partial Shade
  • Moderate water.
Tomatillo

Tomatillo Verde (Physalis ixocarpa)

I’m a big fan of Salsa verde, and you can’t make it without these papery husked gems. Flavor is sourer than a tomato and is reminiscent of under ripe plums. Where the tomato isn’t ripe until it turns red, tomatillos are fully ripe just prior to turning red.
Tomatillos tone down the hotness of chiles and make a great palate clearing Salsa. The Verde has diverse gene traits that produce two distinct variations of plants—one is more erect and branching, the other more squat and compact, both equally prolific.

  • Planting Depth: 1/2″
  • Soil Temp. for Germ.: 70°F
  • Days to Germ.: 7-10
  • Plant Spacing: 12″
  • Days to Maturity: 60
  • Full Sun
  • Moderate water
Jalapeno

Early Jalapeno Chile Pepper (Capsicum annuum)

Jalapeno gets its name from Xalapa, a town in Veracruz Mexico, where its been grown for centuries. And you can’t make Salsa without it. This early maturing jalapeno has classic shape and substantial heat units in slightly smaller fruits. Great for short season locations. Typically a plant produces twenty-five to thirty-five pods, that can be continuously picked throughout the growing season. they are also great pickles.

  • Planting Depth: 1/4″
  • Soil Temp. for Germ.: 70-90°F
  • Days to Germ.: 8-14
  • Plant Spacing: 18″
  • Days to Maturity: 75-85
  • Conditions: Full Sun.
  • Moderate water.
Bunching Onions

Bunching Onions (Allium cepa)

(70-80 days)  Very uniform variety with dark green foliage and little to no bulbing. Vigorous grower and a mild, pleasing onion flavor. 8-11″ length.

  • Planting depth: 1/4″
  • Soil temp for Germ.: 70-90°F
  • Days to germ.: 8-14
  • Plant Spacing: 12″-18″
  • Days to maturity: 70-80
  • Conditions: Full sun.
  • Moderate water.
Coriander

Cilantro Santo (Coriander) (Coriandrum sativum )

Introduced to their American colonies by the Spanish, this quick, robust variety has been specifically bred for leaf production. Santo is slower to bolt as it warms up, so all you hot zone growers, this is the answer to bolting Cilantro. Succession plant for continuous supply.  In milder climates greater time windows of production are possible such as fall sowing for spring harvest. 
I was amazed how intense the flavor is compared to store bought Cilantro. Pull off a few leaves to whenever you make your Salsa. It will keep growing

  • Planting Depth: 1/4″-1/2″
  • Soil temp for Germ.: 60-70°F
  • Days to germ.: 10-14
  • Plant Spacing: 4-6″
  • Days to maturity: 70
  • Conditions: Full sun.
  • Moderate water

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