8 ft x 6 ft beds. The lettuce at the top will be planted on/in 20 inch high bales of straw, thanks to a few awesome bloggers who taught me this trick in their posts. I’m going to do a broccoli experiment this spring. I’ll plant two whole beds of broccoli, one with a closer [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cauliflower’
16 Jun
Garden changing weekend ramble
The lettuces are done. They never made a head…it just got too warm for them and now they are bitter and milky inside. I pulled all of them out. We did eat 5 or 6 salads from the garden. The last bed of radishes did not form bulbs…headless! All carrots are coming along slowly, very [...]
8 May
Worms do it
I went out last night after dark with a flashlight into a slowly drizzling rain to see how the garden was feeling. Broccoli, cauliflower and lettuces looking OK. Radishes, carrots, cabbage looking OK. But why do I keep seeing weird rapid movements out of the corner of my eye? I shone my flashlight around to [...]
11 Apr
Winter Again?
The broccoli and cauliflower plants I grew under grow lights in my basement for the last month got planted out this week on Monday. Now the forecasted lows for the next 4 nights are 32, 31, 28, 31. These cold-weather plants SHOULD be fine down to 20, but I don’t want to take any chances. [...]
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