Garden

[johnridley]

Finally planted the garden today. There are cucumbers (straight-eights) and sugar snaps on the climbing fence, sweet corn (one row, I'm dropping in another tomorrow), peppers, watermelon and cantelope [edit: also some sunflowers]. That looked like a lot of space until I started planting in it. The strawberries we're nipping the flowers from, giving them another year to get established before taking any berries. I have a freshly tilled stripe of land next to them that we'll be moving daughter plants into in a few weeks, then next year we'll start harvesting from the original row, then we should be into a regular rotation (perhaps a 3 row rotation, we'll have to see how these plants produce in our soil and weather).

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[rmeidaking.livejournal.com]

I put the seedlings, which were doing fine indoors, out in the garden plot on Thursday. They're almost all dead today. I maybe overwatered them, maybe they got too much sun, or maybe it's that Steve has admitted to dumping the charcoal remains of cub scout fires in that plot. Whatever it is, we're looking at Plan B.

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

I've had seedlings get sun-scorched when I put them out. I noticed yesterday a few plants had instructions to condition them to the outside by putting them in the shade for a day first before planting.
I got tomato plants yesterday, and for the first time noticed that it says to bury 80% of the plant. I looked this up online and the answers say that tomato plants will sprout roots on the buried stem, giving you a really healthy root system and causing them to produce like crazy. I guess we'll try that this year.

[jennlk]

I usually buy and plant the tomatoes, which might be why you've never noticed before. Well, that, and last year was the first year we'd not gotten most of our tomatoes from Dad -- he always reminded me to plant the tomatoes deep.