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

Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html

Bill, what does one do to "prepare" a 55-gal drum for a water storage system
in order to get the water out easily?  Your garden sounds lovely!   We are
in 7 near Texas - Okla border NE of Dallas  ... Nickie

----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Missen <billmissen@sprint.ca>


> I am in zone 3a- Alberta.
> I have had Lavateras, Coral Bells, Petunias started in my new light bench
> for about 4 weeks now. I yesterday seeded:
> Sungold                 tomato
> LemonBoy             tomato
> Whopper               14 oz. beefsteak tomato
> Brandywine           old amish tomato
> Miracle Sweet        6 oz. tomato
> Golden Cherry       sweet cherry tomato
> gypsy                     sweet pepper
> Blushing Beauty  sweet bell pepper
>
> Today I am busy preparing four 45 gallon barrels for a water storage
system
> to water my garden with. Found a stone bird bath cheap to perch on the
birch
> stump in the back yard. Plan to build a teepee over it with sweet pea and
> canary vine for fun. Maybe a few sunflowers too. Do you think the birds
will
> like it?! lol!
>
> Looking forward to direct seeding peas, carrots, beets, onions in a couple
> of weeks, weather permitting. It snowed for an hour today, then just
melted.
> sigh...
>
> On aside note, Vera and I are attending Campus Crusade's New Life Marriage
> seminar this weekend. Let the fireworks begin.
>
> Keep the faith,
> bill missen.
> http://sqftjourney.homestead.com
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Mjrada@aol.com>
> To: <sqft@listbot.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 1:36 PM
> Subject: Sqft Gardener's Logbook - week of 4/3/00
>
>
> > Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
> >
> > I saw in a GardenWeb thread where someone initiates a thread for folks
to
> > simply write in their garden status reports for the week. Here we can
> discuss
> > what we've done, how things are going and what we expect to accomplish
in
> the
> > near future as pertained to our gardens. Any takers who'd like to
> contribute?
> >
> > For myself, there is not a lot to report from here in NE-Illinois. It's
> still
> > been rather cool and cloudy w/ days in the 50s and nights in the
30s/40s.
> My
> > radishes are up with 2 leaves but haven't changes much in the last week.
> > Still no emergence from my spinach that was sowed 1 week ago. Inside,
> > tomatoes, eggplants and peppers are coming along and up about 6",
getting
> a
> > bit leggy.
> >
> > Have a great week,
> >   Mike
> >
> >
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