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Ripening Calendar

Here are the plants, vegetables and fruit sold at Country Corner and sold in our farm market. The dates shown indicate approximately when the individual produce is ripe and available for sale. If you are coming to the farm for a particular item, please call first: (309) 629-2359, as growing dates vary each season.
	May	June	July	August	Sept.	Oct.	Nov.
Annuals	x	x
Perennials	x	x			x	x
Vegetable Plants	x	x
Herbs	(as available)
Acorn Squash				x	x	x	x
Apples				x	x	x	x
Asparagus	x	x
Beets		x	x	x
Broccoli		x
Brussel Sprouts				x
Buttercup Winter Squash				x	x	x	x
Butternut Winter Squash				x	x	x	x
Cabbage		x	x
Cauliflower		x	x
Cucumbers		x	x	x	x	x
Eggplant			x	x	x
Garden Onions		x	x	x	x
Green Beans		x	x	x	x
Green Tomatoes		x	x	x	x
Heart of Gold Winter Squash				x	x	x	x
Hot Peppers			x	x	x	x
Head Lettuce	x	x	x
Kohlrabi	x	x	x
Musk Melons			x	x	x
New Potatoes			x	x	x	x
Okra				x	x
Onions		x	x	x	x
Peaches		x	x	x	x
Pickle Cucumbers		x	x	x	x
Popcorn	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Pumpkins					x	x	x
Radishes	x	x	x
Raspberries			x	x	x
Rhubarb	x	x
Romaine Lettuce	x	x
Snow Peas	x	x
Specialty Melons			x	x	x
Strawberries	x	x
Sweet Corn			x	x	x	x
Sweet Peppers			x	x	x	x
Tomatoes			x	x	x	x
Watermelon	x	x	x	x	x	x
Yellow Summer Squash		x	x	x	x	x
Zucchini		x	x	x	x