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Re: Sqft Garden journal for week of 5/28/00

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

Hello from Nashville, TN.  We've also had a lot more rain lately than
sun, and my sq.ft.garden was looking kind of soggy and droopy.  The rain
stopped a few days ago though, and things are perking up a bit.  The
tomato plants have tomatoes forming, one almost 2 inches wide now.  A lot
of firsts this year ... I planted some lima beans from an old pack of
seeds I didn't really expect to sprout, and almost every one has sprouted
and is a few inches tall now.  

My first peas produced for a few weeks in April & May but never got very
high.  The vines are now turning yellow/grey and I'm thinking it's time
to replace them with something ... more tomatoes maybe.  I've put some of
the "suckers" I pinched off into a glass of water to try and root them
and make more plants.

Had my first brocolli plants that I harvested last week and this week. 
The heads never got very big, but they were starting to flower so I cut
them and cooked them, greens and all.  Tasted a mite bitter, but okay. 
Also have some cauliflower plants which also have only small heads, a
little brownish looking.  Maybe they're getting too much sun, or need to
be harvested too.  I'll wait a little longer and see what happens.  Had a
bad spell with cabbage worms on both these (more than on the 2 cabbage
plants!), but picked them off daily and they seem to have stopped
visiting.

Have 8 cucumber plants, most just an inch or 2, but a couple 4 or more
inches with big leaves.  These were all started in vermiculite in egg
cartons; I planted them still in the cup and they're growing slowly but
seem to be doing well.

My disappointments have been the beans and lettuce, both of which I did
okay with last year.  I planted several squares of beans, and only a few
seedlings sprouted.  Then I pre-sprouted some indoors in egg cartons and
tried them, but the few that grew a couple inches seemed to get chewed
through at the base, or their leaves eaten off, or something.  I
pre-sprouted a new batch indoors and have put them out again, covering
them with jars in some cases, with a makeshift "cage" (part plastic bag,
part chicken wire) in others.  Of the 2 squares of lettuce, only one seed
seems to have sprouted.  

I have to admit, I've never succeeded in creating proper cages so it
could be that birds are picking out the seedlings as they start to
sprout.  I've hung some shiny pie tins and CD's on string, but the birds
here are determined creatures not easily scared off.  Maybe that's my
next project.

JHH



On Tue, 30 May 2000 07:22:31 -0700 (PDT) Michael Rada <mjrada@excite.com>
writes:
> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
> 
> Hello Square Footers! Here's your chance to tell all of us how your 
> garden
> has been progressing. We'd love to hear what's going on in your neck 
> of the
> garden woods and see what's been working this season so far, and 
> what has
> not.
> 
> For me, (Zone 5, Northeast Illinois) a lot of rainfall and not a lot 
> of
> sunshine has really put a damper on the garden progress. Not a lot 
> of growth
> has been seen lately, although things are coming along. One patio 
> tomato is
> showing a cluster of blossoms beginning to form, I think I'll leave 
> those on
> now that we're moving into June. Romaine lettuce now about 6" tall, 
> but
> definately needs to fill out. Removed all the radishes that didn't 
> swell and
> will replant with bush beans when I get time for a 2nd crop. First 
> bean crop
> now almost 1 month old so may see blossoms in 2 weeks or so.
> Eggplant/peppers slowly coming along.
> 
> Here's hoping for some drier sunny weather, although from the looks 
> of the
> radar and forecasts, that's probably wishfull thinking for the next 
> week.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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