Sometimes I wonder why I bother chronicling every step of the garden. It gets pretty tedious. Sometimes like today, I don’t really want to add anything. Then I realize that 6 months from now—when we’re miserable, covered in snow—reading the entries will bring me a lot of joy and provide inspiration for the year to come.
Finally, some action from the broccoli. It takes forever to show a floret. You fight cabbage worms all year. Now I know why many people don’t bother with it.
Cucumbers taking a beating. I’m not sure what the issue is, but I loose about 3 to 4 leaves a day. One compete vine is pretty much diseased. Several possible suspects: I fertilized a week ago; there has been a lot of rain (over watering); there is not enough circulation (problems vines are in the ‘corner’ of the garden next to the snow peas)
I’ve learned more about things “going to seed”. Sometimes it’s best to just re-seed instead of the ‘cut and come again’ process, especially with things like spinach. I now realize how critical it is to use vermiculite when seeding. Those little sprouts really struggle trying to come up. One little twig welded with mud can block the sprout for weeks.
Square Foot Garden II sprouts are now into the second leaf pair. Radishes are leading the race.
Either zucchini or yellow squash as I was too stupid to mark it. I did a square of each. I figured it would be obvious in a week or two but one of the squares failed, so I had to re-seed. Then I didn’t know which to put in.
The square foot . . . square bucket garden. I read in Garden Gate on how to turn a 5 gallon bucket into a “topsy turvey” tomato plant. I have the rope ready on the giant maple in the back. They say to wait a couple of weeks so the seedling can get to about 1 foot in height. After that, hang it upside down from a rope.
