I did not know if I should expect a good rate of germination from the tomato seeds I saved last year, so planted 3 or 4 seeds in each of these 72 compartments. Most grew. Now it’s time to thin the ‘maters. I just clipped them off with scissors.
Posts Tagged ‘vegetable garden’
20 Mar
Talk about the weather
This week has been beautiful! No coats, ground getting drier every day. In fact I was all excited to get my new garden beds started. Last night I was finally able to get a few hours set aside to start. I started work in a sweatshirt but ended up really warm with just a t-shirt [...]
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 [...]
5 Jun
Garden changes for 09…early June edition
By fall all of these opinions will have probably changed, but as of today, here is what I would/will be doing differently with next year’s garden: Raise the two beds on lowest ground another 8 to 12 inches. Eliminate trying melons at all. I set aside a lot of space for them and they don’t [...]
22 Apr
Garden layout plan 2008
The plan: Bed 1 (completely planted)- Snow Peas along the fence (need to re-seed, the first ones rotten in the ground) (or maybe I’ll put sweet corn here along the fence) Broccoli Cauliflower A few lettuces here and there Bed 2- Radishes and Carrots Green onions A cabbage or two Sugar Baby and Charleston Gray [...]
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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