Friday, April 25, 2014

All seedlings finally moved to 4 inch pots... intro to the community garden

I mixed good quality potting soil with either about 1/4 peat moss or germinating soil for repotting.   As of today they are all in 4 inch pots.

For the 2nd round attempts at germinating I used good quality seed germinating soil - and got nearly 100% germination.  What was even more striking to me was that the plants were more vigorous too.

Last saturday I put about 8 plants into my plot in a local community garden.   These were mostly Cherokee Purple and a few others.  However the watering supply wasn't hooked up yet, so  I hope they survived the next few days till rain came.  The soil seemed moist below the surface so here's hoping they are OK.

Big rock

Well after some more digging I concluded the rock was a piece of limestone at least 2-3 feet across, of unknown depth.  Too big to remove without a tremendous effort. I buried it about 10 inches deep and decided to plant cucumbers on top.

Saturday, April 12, 2014

My garden rocks

I was putting down more topsoil+black kow+ peat moss the other day, so I was diggin' and mixin', and went just a few inches deeper then last year.  Then I found a limestone boulder.  Or bedrock...

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

More sowing

Over the last few days I planted fresh Indigo Rose seeds, and new Costoluto Genovese seeds (an Italian red ribbed variety that I hope does better than Zapotec did).  And, some basil.