Sunday, July 31, 2011

First Tomatoes

It's a very cool summer, but we got our first cherry tomatoes today. Sweet!

Sunday, June 26, 2011

June Peas

My first batch of snow peas today. They are grown mostly in the
shade, except for morning sun.

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Rain in June

We had almost no hot days in May, and June is the same (so far).

I direct sowed some Bountiful Gardens "Blue Lake" green beans in the
large planter box today.

The attached picture is the radishes I transplanted in the end of
April. I forgot about them

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Bok Choy Harvest

Bok choy is overgrown today, but I cut the outside stalks for dinner today.

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Transplants

I set up the drip system to the small raised beds and transplanted my
8 melon seedlings to the front box. I also transplanted some bok choi
and radish seedlings to the middle raised bed. Drip timer is for 10
minutes twice per day (7am and 10am).

I transplanted some other plants into larger containers. Picture
shows Artichoke seedlings in the large black and small blue container.
A zucchini is in the green container and my 3 tomato seedlings are in
the pink container.

Also, I see the asparagus roots are taking off (brick planter)! I
don't think I'm supposed to eat the first batch, but you can see the
tall stalks in the picture.

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Warm day today

We have been eating arugula salads this week (twice so far). The
EarthBox is great for arugula and other lettuce. Not so great for
strawberries.

Some of the seeds I planted 4 days ago have sprouted. The tallest
three are radish. One other that sprouted should be the Cherry Tomato
(unless a radish seed accidentally got in it's cell). I'll be able to
tell when they get a little bigger.

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Started Summer Seeds

Today, I started two flats (9 cells per flat) of seeds for transplant in early May.  Here are the seeds I started, and quantities:

First Flat:

  • 3 x Crenshaw (Burpee Early Hybrid Crenshaw 51904A)
  • 3 x Honeydew (Burpee Orange Sorbet Hybrid 54684A)
  • 2 x Cantaloupe (Burpee Honey Bun Hybrid 54700A)
  • 1 x Artichoke (Burpee Imperial Star Hybrid 56705A)
Second Flat:

  • 3 x Radish (Burpee German Giant 52305A)
  • 2 x Bok Choi (Burpee Joi Choi Hybrid 52753A), with toothpick marker
  • 2 x Tomato (Burpee Brandywine 50062A)
  • 1 x Cherry Tomato (Burpee Sugar Snack Hybrid 54742A)
  • 1 x Squash (Burpee Hybrid Zucchini 62364A)