Today's work

Garden Pics

The first bed:


The collard & lettuce seedlings after about 2 weeks:

Gardening stuff

So, John and I have built, so far, 2 of 6 raised beds (pics to follow). There are now two more tilled up spots waiting for their beds & dirt, and hopefully two more soon to follow. John is downstairs assembling all the beds, assembly-line fashion. This is the start of my 2009 record... And, let's just start with seeds - I bought a bazillion of them.


02/27/09: I started all of the ones below in the little peat-pellet greenhouses. Most of these are from Baker Creek Seed Company (www.rareseeds.com) and are heirlooms:
Purple Beauty Pepper
Quadrato d'Asti Rosso Pepper
Quadrato d'Asti Giallo Pepper
Val d'Orges Lettuce
Thai Yellow Egg Eggplant
May Queen Lettuce
Little Gem Lettuce
Tropeano Round Onion
GA Southern Collards

Notes about these: They were started in the basement and the peppers and eggplant did NOT germinate until I brought them into the house, onto a shelf over the washer/dryer, on 03/16. The collards outgrew their peat-pots, and by the time they were ready to get planted out they were root bound and could probably have been started a bit later.


03/16/09: I started these in those same peat-pot greenhouses.
Chadwick Cherry Tomato
Thai Red Turtle Egg Tomato
Riesentraube Tomato
Cherokee Purple Tomato
Gold Medal Striped Tomato
Arkansas Traveler Pink Tomato
St. Pierre Tomato
Super Choice Tomato
Quadrato d'Asti Giallo Peppers ('cause the other ones hadn't germinated, until I moved them in at around this time)


TODAY, I transplanted out from the February plantings:
Tropeana Round Onions
GA Southern Collards

And, direct-seeded out:
Early Purple Vienna Kohlrabi
Florida Broad Leaf Mustard
Bloomsdale Long Standing Spinach
Cook's Custom Mix Radishes

I also planted some red and white onion sets of unknown heritage, which we'd purchased at Lowe's.

More to come!!!