March Planting
Mar. 15th, 2009 06:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hsifengAfter a lot of mad rushing about today, there is a nice little planting station on the side of the house and a garden gate to keep the dogs out. This s a vast improvement over the prior barricade - many thanks to the hubby! The fence is progressing, the second layer of mulch went down on about 1/2 the garden and the seeding station was set up in a sunny spot on the side of the garden closest to the kumquat trees.
And we got some seeds in the ground! Ok...not in the ground actually...but into their seedling pots at least. *grin* I made up a nice big batch of garden soil, nitrogen and mulch mix in the big black tub that sits under the planting station and went to town. Here's what we planted:
Broccoli de Rapa - 1/3 flat
Yellow Jubilee Tomato - 2/3 flat
Scarlet Nantes Carrots - 1/2 flat
Wisconsin SMR 58 Pickling Cucumbers - four pots (hills)
Marketmore 76 Cucumber - four pots (hills)
Parsnips - 1/2 flat
Borage - 1/2 flat
Sugar Snap Peas - 5 pots
The sugar snap peas are an guessing game - while the other packets said that this was an OK season to plant in (although the tomatoes need cover until they sprout), the peas are from a vendor at the farmers market and came in a self-labeled zip-lock bag with no instructions. I roughed up their endosperms (*giggle* - it's their outer layer) - apparently peas need you to scar it in some way to escape the bonds of their shells - and plopped four in each pot with some of the soil mix. With the rest of the seeds, I just followed the directions on the packet.
And we have a *lot* of seeds left over...
The planting station.
The seedling station.
The fenced garden plot: Still working on the fence cross braces, the bean pole extensions and setting up a hose station on the inside of the fence.
Seeds in their newspaper pots. Other than the potting soil, everything else here was free: Newspaper from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
docryder , plastic planting trays from saoirse42 via various gardening departments around town, station materials from around the house and tomato clotch milk jugs from a client of tristanmorgan 's and seeds gotten for free from the community garden project meeting that we attended last month and via the "Honey Man" at the farmers market.
And finally, the herbs that survived from last years patio garden:
Next steps include locating more seeds and perhaps some seed potatoes (might as well try some out, even though the weather is getting warmer) and to check through the local feed lots for heaping piles of rotted hay.
Finally, for seed organization I would like to come up with some sort of three ring binder with "card holders" so that I can pop the seed packets in there with note cards about when they went into the ground. This will help me track the yearly planting as we continue to garden and will help me chart what worked and what didn't.
At some point, I need to chart out the garden and set up a plan for how we'll be planting this year...
And we got some seeds in the ground! Ok...not in the ground actually...but into their seedling pots at least. *grin* I made up a nice big batch of garden soil, nitrogen and mulch mix in the big black tub that sits under the planting station and went to town. Here's what we planted:
Broccoli de Rapa - 1/3 flat
Yellow Jubilee Tomato - 2/3 flat
Scarlet Nantes Carrots - 1/2 flat
Wisconsin SMR 58 Pickling Cucumbers - four pots (hills)
Marketmore 76 Cucumber - four pots (hills)
Parsnips - 1/2 flat
Borage - 1/2 flat
Sugar Snap Peas - 5 pots
The sugar snap peas are an guessing game - while the other packets said that this was an OK season to plant in (although the tomatoes need cover until they sprout), the peas are from a vendor at the farmers market and came in a self-labeled zip-lock bag with no instructions. I roughed up their endosperms (*giggle* - it's their outer layer) - apparently peas need you to scar it in some way to escape the bonds of their shells - and plopped four in each pot with some of the soil mix. With the rest of the seeds, I just followed the directions on the packet.
And we have a *lot* of seeds left over...
The planting station.
The seedling station.
The fenced garden plot: Still working on the fence cross braces, the bean pole extensions and setting up a hose station on the inside of the fence.
Seeds in their newspaper pots. Other than the potting soil, everything else here was free: Newspaper from
docryder , plastic planting trays from saoirse42 via various gardening departments around town, station materials from around the house and tomato clotch milk jugs from a client of tristanmorgan 's and seeds gotten for free from the community garden project meeting that we attended last month and via the "Honey Man" at the farmers market. And finally, the herbs that survived from last years patio garden:
Next steps include locating more seeds and perhaps some seed potatoes (might as well try some out, even though the weather is getting warmer) and to check through the local feed lots for heaping piles of rotted hay.
Finally, for seed organization I would like to come up with some sort of three ring binder with "card holders" so that I can pop the seed packets in there with note cards about when they went into the ground. This will help me track the yearly planting as we continue to garden and will help me chart what worked and what didn't.
At some point, I need to chart out the garden and set up a plan for how we'll be planting this year...
