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Re: Sqft Gardener's Logbook - week of 4/3/00

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Hi Ann,
    Boy I'm glad we just have the rain and the snow is gone!  We must be on
the edge of  Zones 6&7 in Maryland.  Like you we just moved (in February in
18 inches of snow) so we had no idea what was really here until it started
to warm up a bit.  The previous owner once had a good sized garden and the
soil is pretty good if a bit rocky.  But it was left to the elements for the
last few years and a mess to clean up.  We are building boxes one at a time
and sifting out the rocks. The boxes are only 6 inches above ground so I
think next year we will add another 6 inches so I can garden on a cart.
(it's getting tough to get back up once I'm down!!)  The only thing I
noticed in the garden are tons of onions.  They must have been let go to
seed. They are everywhere!  Also, pounds of worms!! I'm glad he was
relatively organic.  I'm really late getting anything in the ground and will
probably spend the entire season hauling water and covering cool weather
crops but we will see how it goes.  It's been about 10 years since I had any
room (and inclination) to garden, so I'm back to the experimental stage (try
it and see!)  The seeds I started about 3 weeks ago are getting a little
leggy and don't have any second set of leaves yet.  Are they getting too
little or too much of something?  I used to buy seedlings but got a little
ambitious this year and decided to try it myself. I may have to go buy
seedlings if they don't do something soon.
    When the vegetables and flowers are in then I can start on the flower
gardens and trees. ( There are 9.5 acres here all but 1 is grass and meadow
or pond and stream)  I LOVE it but what a lot of work.
Good luck to you and I hope you soon see SPRING!!

Still surrounded by BOXES!
Cathy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ann Stark" <starkdna@rof.net>
To: "Square Foot Gardening List" <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: Sqft Gardener's Logbook - week of 4/3/00


> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>
> Basalt, Colorado - 7000 feet - Zone 4
> Last spring frost date is June 15 for our micro-climate..
>
> Like Dorothy - not a lot going on in the way of plant growth here.  Lows
have
> been in the teens and twenties, highs in the 50's with snow every two days
or
> so.  This last weekend was very nice and I built frames around my garden.
This
> is our second summer in a rental so we're investing a bit more elbow
grease in
> sprucing up what was an abandoned garden with 6inch x 20foot pieces of
lumber we
> found on a locals ranch...free for the taking.  Looks like well weathered
old
> barn wood.   Last year we moved in around July so I got a late start and
really
> only used part of the garden.  This year we are sifting the large rocks
and
> other items out of the garden soil and working in some compost from last
year's
> compost piles.  We live in a refurbished train depot (The Sloess Depot for
any
> history buffs out there) and as we sifted the garden dirt we found train
spikes,
> square nails, bit of old white glazed pottery, and a few bits of coal (!).
What
> a treasure trove.  Still hoping to find the tin box full of money, but no
luck
> yet!  The soil is loose, dark and beautiful - a bit dry.  But it's seems
way to
> cold for anything to survive yet.  Along the south side of our house I
noticed
> the herbs in my herb corner were greening up.  Chives were about an inch
high.
>
> Tomatoes and some flower starts are doing well indoors under shop lights -
about
> 6-8 inches high on sturdy stems. Went up the road to some forest service
> property and cut a few young willows and red alder for building some pole
bean
> tee-pees. Started broccoli, kale, and spinach seeds under shop lights last
> weekend.
>
> Good to hear from everyone else who is out in their yards already.  Keeps
my
> anticipation high!
>
> Happy Gardening!
> Ann
>
>
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