lori, I would dearly love to have a SS commune here! I feel so alone most of the time, as noone knows what the heck I'm doing but they sure think I have some strange ideas!
Guess what?
I
finally got most of my veggies planted and under the grow lights!
I know that sounds a little slow to you folks, but last year I got things in a little early and the soil hadn't warmed up enough, so they were still a little sluggish.
I planted:
Tomatoes: Brandywine Heritage, Old German, Abraham Lincoln~original, and Big Boy Hybrids. Also planted some Sweet Million Cherry tomatoes.
102 plants total.
Peppers: Big Bertha Hybrids~2 doz., Hungarian Wax(hot)~2 doz. and I would like to pick up a few California Wonders, as I forgot to order the seeds.
48 plants total.
Squash: Str. Neck Yellow-
1 doz. The rest will be sown later.
Cucumbers: Str. Eight,
1 doz.
Perennials: Black-eyed Susans, 1 doz. , Tickseed(Coreopsis), 1 doz., Shasta Daisy, 1 doz. , Echinacea(Purple Cone Flower), 1 doz., Pyrethrum(Painted Daisy), 1 doz.,
48 plants total.
Annuals: Calendula,
1 doz.
That
almost filled up the bottom shelf of my grow frame.
I have two more shelves yet to fill!
Yet to be sown:
Herbs
Squash
Broccoli
Annuals
Planted some onion sets and lettuce in my cold frame yesterday.
The rest of my veggies will be sown directly in the ground when the soil is warm enough:
Pumpkins
Winter Squash
Corn
Beans
Onions
Potatoes
More annuals, including some companion plantings.
Dill
Cilantro
More lettuce
Raddish
Mangels
This will be my biggest garden ever, with more square foot methods, green manure, urine side-dressing, mulching, trellising of tomatoes, cucumbers, beans, etc.
If I can get my system in place, this will be the first year I use drip irrigation also, using a barrel at the top of the garden and recycled garden hosing for a main line. I will be purchasing the connectors and the thinner, drip irrigation lines from the local hardware.
Let the garden season begiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnn!
My younger cat, Mooch, just needed some attention and wouldn't leave me alone....all the while, the wind was blowing and I was in fear of losing my smaller seeds as I planted.
Plus the whole field was full of trash and metal chunks - old appliances and the like. Sissy tried to save a goodly patch - she even tried to save seeds, but unfortunately they succumbed to guineas, horses and mower. In their place she has a decent orchard grass, brome, and red clover hay field. I guess sometimes you make tradeoffs.
