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I garden in honor of my mother, whose name was Kate.

Showing posts with label planting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label planting. Show all posts

Monday, April 21, 2014

Working out(side)

 So yesterday I planted the rest of the 25 pea plants:


The three far bins have the spinach planted.  I need to add radishes to that (which may get done today).

And Roy, with dreams of getting rich selling cherry tomatoes at the farmer's market, has built these planters.



They do look nice.  To even out the yard, we're moving my big cement block planter.  Of course, it should be already planted with carrots, beets and lettuce.  I hope to have it back together tomorrow.

Oh, and here are my tomato and pepper plants at this time:


None of the full-size peppers have grown.  But the new tomato and pepper seeds I started nine days ago were germinated and ready to put in the starter trays.  The tomatoes have leaves, the peppers just a root.
















Sunday, April 20, 2014

Keeping up

Yesterday I finished planting out the 25 peas, and direct-seeded spinach in front in three of the boxes.

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Peas

I have planted out 15 of the expected 25 peas.

Alaska:
These plants have started up taller than the other varieties, although planted at the same time.  Of the six I started, exactly 5 survived.

Organic Progressive:
All twelve of these that I started have survived.  I've planted 5, and may add more to the fifth box.

Black-seeded Early:
These aren't any earlier to grow; whether they produce sooner remains to be seen.  Of the twelve I started, I have only seven and have planted 5.  I meant to have two complete boxes of them, but that isn't happening.

I haven't planted out the Veggie Tales Alaskas yet, but besides being older seeds which aren't germinating as well, I so far see no difference from the other Alaska peas.