Planting for Fall

Fall plantings are now on the schedule. Where are the seedlings from August?

Here are the results form 8 weeks.











Not too hot.

So...off to the Saturday Farmers Market.










From the Farmers Market, I got...
3 Bush Early Girl
3 Bush Beefsteak
3 Husky Red
3 Bush Cucumber
1 Basil

The basil was $2, the rest were $1.

Earlier, from Home Depot, I got:
4 Homestead
4 Big Boy

At this point, I may run out of room with my planters. Also, I need to research a little soil prep for the tomatoes.

Bad Seedlings and Garden Update

The seedlings failed the first time due to being rained on. I retried (with the same soil)...here is what I got. Maybe they will grow to something I can use.










The beans are now growing well. They were grown from seedlings. They have taken off most recently. Next time I would start earlier with better seedling development. BTW...it takes ALOT of beans to make even one serving of beans.














Here is the progress on the sweet potatoes. I have no idea where the potato is actually going to come from.











AND....had Sam do the Miracle Grow on the lawn once more.

Seedling Update

Here's where they are at....9 days later.

The cukes and melons took off. The rest are coming up slowly.

Supposedly, for our region, the seedlings should not be planted until mid-September.

Late Blog from July 28th - Garden Update

Late July 28th update.....

The Mango is ready.














The Beans look like they are growing better from the seedlings.

Late Blog from July 28th - Planting Seedlings

Last week (July 28th) I went and planted some seedlings. I used a packet of stuff from Lowes and my seed from Southern Exposure.














The seeds I planted were from Southern Exposure.

TOMATO Tropic VFN
MUSKMELON Hales Best
WATERMELON Sugar Baby
CUCUMBER PICKLING Arkansas Little Leaf H-19
CUCUMBER Marketmore 80
CUCUMBER Marketmore 76
PEPPER, HOT Jalapeno
PEPPER, BELL (SWEET) California Wonder

Checkup on Summer Gardening (II)

Awhile back I tried some seedlings. It looks like the collards and tomatoes did not do anything. The beans look OK but don't seem to have grown in the last two weeks.

The black containers are the black beans. The green are the queen annes peas. The tomatoes died off. The collards did not seem to go anywhere.

I used fresh potting soil for all the seedlings.

The beans are now in planter boxes.














I planted some bean seed directly into the planters. They seem to be prone to getting eaten. I ended up spraying lightly with malithion. Some of them seem to have gotten through.

Bean seedlings getting eaten

My bean seedlings are getting eaten by something. The seeds pop up really nicely, then overnite, the tops get eaten. I initially thought it was racoons or some animal. I tested this by placing small plastic planters over the sprouts in the evening. In the morning though, the lanters were undisturbed but the seedlings were still eaten.