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Planted Our Garden

June 6th, 2010 at 05:52 pm

The girls and I planted our garden today. It is a little later than I would like to have started it, but it is in.

We planted tomatoes, bush beans, sugar snap peas, onions, a strawberry plant. The tomatoe plants seem to have come from last years tomatoes that I composted. The beans and peas were started from seeds that I actually had leftover from last year. Do you think they will grow? When I was at Home Depot yesterday they didn't have the seeds I wanted, so I decided to try the leftovers. The onions are also from leftover seeds from the year before.

The only thing I have bought new was the strawberry plant. We had one last year that spread quite a bit, but it is struggling to come back. I bought the new one to please my older daughter who loves strawberries. We'll see how many we get?!

We also have a little bit of a mystery plant. A pumpkin, squash or goard also started itself from the seeds of one we composted in the garden last year. It will be fun to see what it turns out to be! We kept two of those that sprouted. We didn't want those to take over our small 8 foot by 8 foot garden.

We are schedule to get quite a bit of rain over the next week or so. This should give our garden a good start. How many of you plant fruits or vegetables?

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7 Responses to “Planted Our Garden”

  1. Jaon.of.the.Arch Says:
    June 6th, 2010 at 06:51 pm 1275850287
    1275850287

    I prefer to plant beans late to get beyond all possibility of cool soil leading to seed rot. Don't know where you live, but here in mid-east Missouri it is too late for peas. They need cool weather and are among the very first things I plant in late winter/early spring. But one year old bean and pea seed should still germinate.

    Yeah, those pumpkin/squash/gourds really have a way of coming up in compost. I've got one they sprouted among my cabbage. Looks like it is a zucchini. Usually it is some sort of winter squash that volunteers.

    I'm still planting today (taking a break now) and am really late with many things.

    Good luck! Smile

  2. creditcardfree Says:
    June 6th, 2010 at 06:55 pm 1275850538
    1275850538

    Thanks Joan for your opinion. Were in mid central Iowa. I know I've planted the snow peas late May before and did okay. Obviously, I'm about two weeks later this year. I just look at the whole garden as an experiment, so whatever we harvest will just be fun!

  3. My English Castle Says:
    June 7th, 2010 at 04:31 am 1275885093
    1275885093

    We've got a raised bed garden this year since our soil is so lousy. There's tomatoes and peppers, rhubarb, strawberries, crookneck squash, and always some sort of lettuce--currently argula (rocket to you Brits).

    We're also trying a zucchini in one of those upside down bags. I got one free and decided to give it a try.
    Goo luck with your growing!

  4. My English Castle Says:
    June 7th, 2010 at 04:31 am 1275885106
    1275885106

    We've got a raised bed garden this year since our soil is so lousy. There's tomatoes and peppers, rhubarb, strawberries, crookneck squash, and always some sort of lettuce--currently argula (rocket to you Brits).

    We're also trying a zucchini in one of those upside down bags. I got one free and decided to give it a try.
    Goo luck with your growing!

  5. Joan.of.the.Arch Says:
    June 7th, 2010 at 03:28 pm 1275924537
    1275924537

    What made your soil lousy? I think of Iowa as having deep, fertile topsoil. Are you in a housing development where they scraped the soil down to clay and bedrock to level for building?

  6. creditcardfree Says:
    June 7th, 2010 at 03:52 pm 1275925939
    1275925939

    My English Castle mentioned her soil was lousy, however, we added topsoil two years in a row to our garden because yes the development did take all the topsoil off the top. Adding topsoil is cheap and well worth the effort and results.

  7. My English Castle Says:
    June 7th, 2010 at 05:14 pm 1275930882
    1275930882

    Yep, it's me in Wisconsin with the bad soil. We live very near Lake Michigan, and it's all clay soil. It's hard as a rock with very bad drainage. But perhaps my compost bin (new for us) will help things over the next few years.

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