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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 Wilmington NC.

We have had so crazy weather lately. We went from no rain to fairly
abundant rain. I am a first time sq ftr. My tomatoes have blight (I think).
The leaves are turning yellow with brown spots and falling off. I do have
three nice sized tomatoes on my Better Bush. I am going to leave them since
they are green and see what happens. My roma plum just started flowering
and has one baby fruit. 

Peppers- my pepper plants are moving slow. They have flowers and I believe
I am seeing the start of fruits on them. On one of them (yellow bell) the
leaves on the bottom 5 inches have fallen off. I don't know why!!

My pole beans aren't vining, but my bush beans are doing fine. The ones I
planted on 4/30 look like they are getting ready to flower. The ones sown
two weeks later are catching up in size fast.

Lettuce- the lettuce I planted 4/30 is small I think it has been too hot as
this is a colder weather crop. The seeds planted 5/14 never germinated.

Carrots and radishes doing fine, although germination was low.

Cukes-seem to be at a standstill. Have unopened flowers and seem to be
turning pale green.

Any advice would be appreciated since I'm a first time veggie gardener. I
love this list, and hate caterpillars and mole crickets!!!

Stacey

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> From: jhoskins1@juno.com
> To: sqft@listbot.com
> Subject: Re: Sqft Garden journal for week of 5/28/00
> Date: Sunday, June 04, 2000 6:17 PM
> 
> 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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