Summer has arrived, but you still have time to plant vegetables and harvest them before the first frost. First, know your hardiness zone and first frost date. Consider using 'succession planting" to stagger your harvest so not all of one crop is ready at the same time, but you have too much produce for you to eat.
To find UJAMAA SEEDS you desire to start soon, read the list in the graphic below/or right and type the vegetable name in the SEARCH tool in our menu.
Closely associated with the cuisine of the American South, soul food is a celebrated feature of mainstream American foodways. Strongly influenced by the traditional practices of West Africans and Native Americans and originating in the southern regions of the United States, soul food is an American cuisine traditionally prepared and eaten by African Americans. Soul food originated with the foods that enslaved Africans in the Americas grew in their gardens along with the discarded foods given to enslaved people by their owners during the Antebellum period.
Through both necessity and creativity, enslaved peoples were able to transform these discarded foods into what some foodies today view as gourmet delicacies. As the United States during the 20th and 21st centuries has become a destination for many African and Caribbean immigrants, soul food today includes several traditional dishes from the global African diaspora.
CLICK on our CARIBBEAN GARDEN, AFRICAN GARDEN, and SOUTHERN SOUL GARDEN links below and grow your own soul food garden this year.
Varieties Included in this Collection:
Antigua Bush Beans,
Ashworth Sweet Corn,
August Ambrosia Watermelon,
Bloomsdale Spinach,
Dark Green Romaine Lettuce,
Dragon Carrots,
Fine Leaf Chives, and
National Pickling Cucumber.
If you are looking to start a quick and easy garden this ones for you. You'll find that all of the seeds in the collection can be sown directly into the soil without having to be started indoors in most areas on the United States.
A Tip from Tomia: Most of these seeds can be planted in the garden now in zones 5B and above, but wait until 2 weeks after your average last frost date to plant the cucumber, corn and watermelon directly into the warm soil as they dont like cold weather. You can find your gardening zone avg frost free date by searching with your zip code online. (Ex . 12345 gardening zone, or 1234 average last frost).
Happy Growing!!
Tomia MacQueen
Ujamaa Grower
Wildflower Farm
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