I have received at least four more seed catalogs since my last entry. I will look through them all. Who knows where I will find my next idea (plant etc) that actually works in my yard. Yesterday I even received two post card packs of gardening gadgets but I didn't see that they came until this morning. One of my local gardening stores doubles as a Christmas store and each January and February they advertise 40% off all seeds. Looking at the calendar, I will probably be stopping by there the weekend of the 23rd this month. I have already started my list although I haven't completed my inventory yet to see what I need. I have decided to change one thing so far this season. For my larger vegetable plants, I think I am going to start them from seed in biodegradeable pots. I lost a couple of tomato, pepper and cucumber plants during transplanting and using the peat pots will eliminate that problem. I will have to use some sort tray underneath to keep them from falling over as well as catch any water. I think I am going to try even another variety of green pepper to try to get some earlier than late August. I found a variety that touts its for short growing seasons but it was only a day shorter in its description than one of the two varieties I grew last year. I had beautiful success with growing Juliet tomatoes instead of growing cherry tomatoes. The cherry tomatoes seem to crack more oftten. I think I will grow them again and look for another variety of grape as well. I didn't plant my lima beans until late and I think I am finished with that exeriment for a while. Not sure what I will plant instead, maybe some leaf lettuce or another row of carrots. I wish I could get better spinach germination, I'm thinking of trying a different variety to see if the germination is better. It was a little warmer this morning. It was only 27 when I got up. The last two days it was 11 degrees. |
Harvesting apples
2 months ago
