This year I am growing Tom Thumb and Tiny Tim Lettuce in the square foot gardens. The catalog says that these grow 4 to 6 inches wide and tall. I guess they are ready to eat now. In another location I have planted several more. I put a Kale plant in the middle of a [...]
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5 Apr
First week of April Garden Overview
My average last frost date of the year is April 14th. That means there is still a 50/50 chance that I could get another frost on that date. A week later is my 10% chance date. This year has been different. We haven’t had a frost for about two weeks now, since late March. The [...]
3 Jul
Saving Lettuce Seeds
Normally you want to pick all of your lettuce either before it gets bitter from days that are too warm or before it sends up a seed stalk (bolting). To save lettuce seeds, you need to let the plant grow flowers. I cut the whole head of flowers off the lettuce when some of the [...]
17 May
May 2009 Backyard Garden
Gardening by numbers Bed 1 is my wife’s herb garden with an 8 foot row of cucumbers along the fence. Just seeded this weekend. Bed 2 has strawberries, three kinds of peppers and a couple eggplants I got at the farmer’s market this weekend. Bed 3 is seeded with sweet corn on the left [...]
10 Feb
Dinner salad harvest
I haven’t been keeping up with thinning the lettuce, but these three plants had been thinned out and repotted on their own a couple weeks ago. They made a lovely little butter crunch salad last night. Grown sometimes in the greenhouse, sometimes indoors, depending on the weather.
7 Jan
Lettuce in January!
I think I’ll get to eat some of this lettuce this month. I started this bunch under lights indoors and then set it out in my attached greenhouse. There was an incident that ruined half the lettuce in the container (melting ice, water, plastic roof, heavy, spill, mess) but it has been bouncing back. Here [...]
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 [...]
4 Jun
Garden flood today
Today while I was at work it rained a lot. Actually quite a lot. The creek overflowed its 4 foot banks and rose up 25 feet inside my fence (probably an additional 2 feet in water height). Everything loose in the bottom half of the yard was washed over to the west side of the [...]
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