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

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Bill & Nickie sounds like you both have great gardens. :)

I live in zone 10, Scottsdale, AZ.

Last month, I planted Zinnas, Chamomile, Lavender, Zulu & Shasta
daisies, giant marigold, giant asters, Balloon flowers, Caledula and 30
different herbs. This is my first time trying to grow flowers. I also
planted an assoetment of lettuce & spinach. This year I'm planting
soybeans and peanuts for the first time. 

The sweet peas are already producing and the 4 varieties of corn are up,
as well as the carrots. I planted quiona and red okra and I'm trying
different varietties of plants that are native to Australia. They're
suposed to be drought hardy. 

I planted 3 different varieties of honeydew and 2 watermelons, plus baby
pumkins. 

I planted Souix tomatoes and beefsteak tomatoes and will be trying out
the spoon tomatoes I heard so much about on this forum last year. 

Today, my peppers are going in, as well lambs quarters and other plants
sensitive to the heat. 

My garden is 560sgft, consisting of 12 individual beds and several large
pots for those herbs that like taking over. My husband and I will be
adding 2 new beds 4x10ft long. Half of the garden has been screened to
keep the growing season longer in the summer. 

I'm hoping for a great growing season.

Tina          

"Nickie A. Shasteen" wrote:
> 
> 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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