What are You Starting?
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Comments (58)Before I list the things I've started I want to say that I have had 100% success germinating Johnny's Selected Seeds. Other places I ordered over the net were: New England Seed Co., Victory Seed Co., Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, Millington Seed Co., Tomato Growers Supply Co., Trade Winds Fruit. I have three 4' X 9' raised beds. Two for cool crops. Later two for Tomatoes and one for peppers. The beans and other things will be planted in these beds as companion kind of plantings. I use crop covers and these will be staying on all summer. I'll remove the covers in the morning and they'll go back on about 10am (after the bees have left to cool their hives) A collection of plastic pop bottles filled with water hold down the crop covers. A collection of smaller glass bottles are placed wherever they can fit to accommodate our cold nights and frosts and freezes. There are 15 stakes, 18" high in each of the beds. Jute twine is criss-crossed every which way. This keeps the crop covers from whipping around so much and also will hold up the sheets and blankets I have to cover the beds with when there is going to be a frost or freeze. I use the plastic bottles that have held drinking water and put very small needle-size holes into the bottles to serve as my watering style. I plan to keep this watering style up -- it worked well with watering the rose plants and citrus trees last year (using gallon milk jugs) It conserves on the water big time and allows me to control exactly what gets watered. I also use this kind of watering to put the fish emulsion and epson salts or whatever into the ground. No problem with getting the leaves wet either. All of this is very time consuming -- I don't know if I'll be able to keep up with the pace. This is my first year with vegetables -- you probably can tell :) My husband says he thinks I'm overdoing "this whole thing". But I'm just learning, so there you go. Cool Crops: After germinating, these were placed in front of a window and got so leggy that I threw them out and started over. Now everything gets put a few inches below flouresant lights. Some are now in the raised gardens and covered with crop covers. When we've had freezes and frosts each bed gets covered with four sheets and thermal blankets. Early Scarlet Globe Radish, Victory Early Wonder Tall Top Round Red Beet, Johnny's Round Red Ace F1 Hybrid Beet, Johnny's Rio Verde Hybrid Cabbage, New England Seed Salad Bowl Lettuce, New England Seed Buttercruch Lettuce, New England Seed Romaine COS Lettuce, New England Seed Early Scarlet Globe Radish, Victory Bloomsdale Long Standing Spinach, Victory Savoyed Leaf Tyee F1 Hybrid Spinach, Johnny's Tomato: The Solar Fire doesn't want to get going. The Sun Gold is doing the best -- now about 5" tall. The Sun Gold gets very good reviews and is hard to come by (so is the Solar Fire). The Purple Cherokee is suppose to be fantastic tasting -- comeing from someone that works an organic business for profit. Amish Paste Eva Black Ball Brandywine Black Brandywine Purple Cherokee Solar Fire VFFF Hybrid, Tomatoe Growers Supply Sun Gold Cherry Pepper: All of these had just germinated and were setting out on the patio and a strong wind blew them off the table two days ago. Rats! All gone. There isn't going to be room under the lights to start these seeds over. I'll just have to figure on planting only one of each. Cayenne, Long Red, Victory Golden California Wonder, Victory Hungarian Yellow Wax (Hot Banana), Victory Hungarian Sweet, (Sweet Banana), Victory Pimento, Victory Insectuary & Companion Plantings: some seeds were planted in peat pots today and the rest will be direct-planted in a few weeks when I know for sure there will be no more frosts. Queen Sophia French Marigold, Johnny's Alaska Mix Nasturtium, Johnny's Genovese Basil, Ghorganics.com Sweet Basil, Ferry Morse Caraway, Victory German Chamomile, Victory Dill Bouquet, Victory Florence Fennel, Victory Feverfew, E-Bay Flying Saucers Morning Glory, E-Bay Italian Parsley, Victory Shasta Daisy, Victory Spearmint, Victory Creeping Thyme, Victory Yarrow, E-Bay Beans: Only the Contenders and Scarlet Runners are still around. I know better now, but I thought I had waited long enough for germination and decided they weren't going to germinate and threw them out. Blue Lake 274 Hybrid, Victory Contender Bush Bean, Victory McCaslin 42 Pole Bean, Baker Creek Roma II Bush Bean, Victory Scarlet Runner Bean, Millinton Seed Pray for me :)...See MoreWhat are you starting in Zone 7 right now?
Comments (15)seysonn is right, this has been a very very warm spring in ATL which has microclimates between zone 7 & 8 everywhere! I have spring crops in but I planted them very early, and they are doing well. Finishing up the last of fall/winter planted lettuces and chicories, carrying over carrots and some other cole crop veggies but many are bolting already. I've got potatoes in, I just plant a small, whole organic potato and let it go. The peas never much germinated but the favas are looking good, radishes grew so fast in warm temps they are about 1/2" around and ready to harvest. Barbie radishes!...See MoreWhat are you starting indoors now?
Comments (7)I started broccoli and cauliflower in late January, but they got too leggy, so now they're outside seeing if they can survive to be planted in a week or two. I also started onions and lettuce, but the lettuce didn't come up so well. I'm new at this but I think it's been pretty much a failing experiment this year. Next year I'll probably try winter sowing because I understand that's pretty fool proof. The seeds know when to mature. I'm getting dirt this weekend for my raised beds, so I'm pretty excited to start direct sowing my cool weather veggies. I'm doing all veggies by the way. Here is a link that might be useful: Sinfonian's garden adventure...See MoreWhat got you started on Growing the Hot Ones?
Comments (34)I went to high school in El Paso. Eating chiles rellenos in Juarez got me hooked on spicy food. (C'mon you wimp, you can get closer to the stem than that!) Many years pass, most in Texas. Atlanta: Five years ago my ex-wife brought over a load of plants for my back yard, including herbs and peppers from the box stores (bell, giant jalapeno, half a dozen cowhorns for some reason - must have been on sale). We added more peppers - cayenne, serrano, ornamental thai. Overwintered those and many survived. The next year I added more: ama paprika, cubanelle, yellow fatalii (quite by accident - I thought it has a hab) and discovered this forum. 2012 got a %^& load of seed in Bonnie's swap and last year had about 100+ plants of 40-some varieties, most at the hottest end of the spectrum, 98% in containers on the lawn. Thanks to all here I was very successful, with only the occasional disaster, eventually selling off about 2/3 of the plants and harvesting far too many pods. This year is transitional - I'm in Texas with herbs and a lone pepper that I supposed was a yellow fatalii (Bonnie Plants' Worlds Hottest Hab) that is looking more like a hab than a fatalii. The "overwinter" plants (Douglah, Immortal Beloved BJ, mama St. Peter) got bit and zombified in the back of the moving truck. But to coin a phrase, "I'll be back." Dennis This post was edited by DMForcier on Mon, Jul 7, 14 at 13:08...See Moregjcore
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