As such, scheduling and spacing recommendations become invalid. All instructions for support structures assume that the plant will only live for a few months. Sweet 100 will outgrow a six-foot support in a short Massachusetts summer. I already see that these grow bigger than anyone knows in the states. Pole bean, squash, cucumber.
Many plants prefer cold weather.
Leaf lettuce grows quite well here. Pea, Pisum sativum . They do grow, but I like them better after they've been nipped by frost. I believe that these are sensitive to the length of the day, and to the summer solstice in particular. The contents of these notes have not been reviewed, approved or monitored by the University of the Virgin Islands.