Cucumber trellises

New cucumber trellises

First round of peas

First round of peas. They defiantly do better if you plant on ST Patrick's day

Radishes

First picking of the radishes

Herb garden

This year we have dedicated a spot in the back of the house to a Herb garden.

Planting day

Planting the transplants. It was unseasonably hot and we had to shad the plants (and us) form the sun so they did not wilt and die before we could water them.

Beds

Beds cleaned out. Cabbage from last yeare was moved so we can let it go to seed.

Peas

Peas are coming up. We actually planted them on time this year

Hardening off

Hardening off the greenhouse plants

Cold frame update 4-19-11

The cabbage is coming along nicely. There have been a few slugs appearing in the cold frame so beer traps and rock salt have been put inside the frame. A remote thermometer has also been added.

The plan

 

 

The plan for the garden layout. Athough it will probably go awry

These are screen capures from the kitchen garden aid. Its a great free program

http://sourceforge.net/projects/kitchengarden/

Greenhouse update 4-8-11

The seedlings are coming along nicely. I changed the lighting timer to have the lights on during the day instead of at night. There is a defiant improvement form previous years.

Cabbage in the cold frame

Cabbage started out in the cold frame

Seeds started

Here is our mini greenhouse with the seeds planted

Carrots form last year

Carrots that were left to over winter.





The leaf mulch definitely helped this year the carrots fared much better this year. We left a few carrots in the ground so they go to seed. This will be the first time we have tried to save carrot seed.

DIY Seed tape

I have seen seed tape in the stores and thought that it would be a good way to keep rows evenly spaced. The seeds on the store bought tapes are of unknown quality and origin so we have made our own. There are dozens of instructions online on how to do this and this is our take on it. We used news paper cut into strips and “glued” the seeds on with flour and water paste.

Onions

This year we are trying onions from seed. The sets we used last year did not produce a signal onion. Here are the seedlings at one week and they seem to be doing quite well.

Seeds

The seeds from Baker Creek and Comstock Ferre have arived.



Baker Creek

Comstock Ferre