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Vegetable Seed Plantings

19 years ago

Has anyone started planting vegetable seeds and what have you planted so far?

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  • 19 years ago

    YES!
    I have some in the cold frame - but I took out many yesterday to sit right out in the regular air temps. The beds are seeded and coming up.
    I grow several types of unusual asian greens: tatsoi, boc choi, a-choi, 6 kinds of lettuce, heading endive, two kinds of arrugula, 6 or 7 kinds of spring radish, I also have "winter sown" about 6 types of heirloom tomatoes, asian and black beauty eggplant, thai and ancho hot peppers, red and yellow sweet peppers.

    I can't remember everything - I know I missed a load of stuff. I planted things in blocks and especially the greens I sow very heavily as I use them as cut and come again salad greens.

    GGG

  • 19 years ago

    I use to square garden in Texas. I don't have raised beds so I would have to do it on the ground. Do you have photos of your squares? ARe they raised. I have only carrots, onion, cabbage, collards and brussel sprouts in my garden. No summer stuff yet.

  • 19 years ago

    Hey Goatster, let me see if I can get some photos for you next week. The sprouts will be larger and then I think you can see the squares better.
    The beds are "double height" which to me is two fence pickets deep. I use fence pickets on their side to make raised bed. Each bed is 3' wide, so there are three squares and I just draw them in with a finger, and then plant in the square. The indentations stay until the sprouts come up, and then I can see each square well anyway. This year I created decorative chequerboards by using different colors of vegetables in each "square", just for fun.

    I still have one bed filled with onions and garlic, it is a dedicated bed for those. Collards and red mustards are still in from winter too. plant them in the center of the beds and then sprinkle radishes all around the edges. I will add in some nasturtiums soon as we enjoy them in salads, and then as time goes along I will replace those with marigolds for something pretty.

    My sprouts in the garden are all spring vegetables. Nothing will last until summer. There are tomatoes, basils, peppers attempting to germinate in pots for summer. I also add yard long beans and malibar spinach for hot weather growing. This year I have purchased seed from tropical asia where some varieties we can grow in winter/spring/fall like boc choi are also bred for summer humidity/heat production. So I'm going to see how those do too. Bush and regular runner beans fall somewhere in the middle of the two for planting.

    We grow directly in the ground at church. Some of our beds are sown or planted in squares, some in rows. We plant garlic, and greens usually in squares. Other brassica in rows. Tomatoes always in the center of rows and always after a year of bush beans were grown in that row. Peppers we grow tall in the center of the rows and then minis on the outsides. Makes them easier to harvest.

    GGG

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