fall planting
Half of my lettuce did not sprout, so I have replanted it. Instead of just replanting the lettuce, I planted another whole tray of seedlings. How could one have too many?
fall planting
I’m about a month late, but I wanted to see if I can get some fall crops. I have lots of space where my peas, garlic and onions were. And my potatoes will be coming out soon. I planted: Lettuce, Skyphos Lettuce, Prizehead Lettuce, Oakleaf Lettuce, Valentine Red Mix (Botanical Interests) Lettuce, Italienisher Lettuce, Victoria Butterhead Lettuce, Green Romaine Lettuce, Red Romaine Brussels’s Sprouts Win-Win Choi Beets, Merlin Beets, Blankoma Spinach, Bloomsdale Long Standing Escarole, Tres Fine Escarole, Batavian Arugula Fall Greens Mix (Sand Hill Preservation) With a harvest time…
potato bed ready for planting
Finally, I have a potato bed ready to plant. I’ve gone over to my community plot several times to work on it, but each time I go there is some other task that needs to be done. Like removing salt marsh hay mulch from my garlic and onions and layering it in my garden paths, emptying my compost bin and sifting the new compost, pruning my pear trees and raspberry canes, top-dressing my asparagus with compost and pruning lots of winter kill from my lilac bush (it sure was a…
peas are sprouting
I checked on my peas today. Just dug a bit in the soil and found a seed. It had a really long root and just starting to send out a stem. I’ll have pea sprouts in no time I bet.
planting squash and cukes
Just planted a tray with squash and cucumber seeds. (in order of my favorites:) Squash: Waltham butternut, Buttercup Burgess strain, Jarrahdale pumpkin, New England Pie pumpkin, Hubbard blue ballet, and Acorn Honey Bear Cucumbers: Diva, Tokiwa, Sooyow nishiki, Straight 8, Sumter pickling
germination test of old corn seeds
I’m doing a germination test of my old corn seeds. They were “Packed for 2009” – 6 years old. Any bets on whether they’ll sprout?
seedlings inside under lights
I have lots of little seedlings growing. Beets, broccoli, marigolds, lettuce, escarole, endive, eggplants, peppers, tomatoes…. Some I’m on time planting, some ahead of schedule and some behind schedule.
6 yr old onion seeds didn’t sprout…
How long do seeds last? I’ve given up on my 6 year old onion seeds. 🙁 They didn’t sprout this year. Time to throw out the package. I think also last year they also didn’t sprout. It may have been the previous year (4 years old) that was the last time they came up. And that year, they took an extra week to come up. Onions seeds are one of the more short-lived types. Its often recommended you only use them the season they are packaged for. Other short-lived seeds…
second sowing
I planted two trays of seeds tonight. The varieties are listed here: 2014 planting list.
ready to plant more seeds
I got a bunch of seed packets out and arranged them for planting my next tray of seeds. Lettuce, eggplants, broccoli, etc. I need to get to it soon, Suzie already ate one of the lettuce packets!
This is a journal of my vegetable gardens. Skippy thinks the garden is his, even though I do all the work. We're located near Boston, in USDA zone 6. I have bees, chickens, fruit trees and berry bushes, too. I use all sustainable organic methods and strive to grow all of my family's vegetables myself. -Kathy
weeks and counting until my last spring frost
My garden this week
Skippy’s vegetable of the month – Egyptian walking onions!
