To ALL my fellow gardeners, it’s OFFICAL, as of March 25, 2015 at 3:45 pm Favour Valley Acres is NOW Incorporated Non Profit Society. YEE HAW!!! Also I’m doing my blog FIRST time, on my NEW lap top that was donated. How COOOOL is that? Little by little things ARE coming together.
This week we had two Work Bee Days to get much needed work done. On Day 1, I had 5 young girls that planted all indoor seeds in the greenhouse. As well, Jennifer and a young girl tidied up the Test greenhouse. Which we had planted radishes, kale, spinach, lettuce, and Swiss chard. To my SURPRIZE there are small radishes already. For some reason, some of the test planting was sparse. So more seed was added to be LUSH and plentiful. We also had the men start on building the Chicken Coop. The second day the men continued on the Chicken Coop as well the kids planted the strawberries in the gutters. I’m going to see if I can get some 2015 photos posted in the gallery as well. This week I’m getting the ground ready to plant my potatoes first week of April. One thing is, I still don’t have my hiller to make the furrow rows for the potatoes so they have to be ALL done by hand. NOT fun. My tulips that were planted in the tires that the kids painted, have flower heads that one can see the color that the tulip is. Those pictures I’ll have posted as well.
Now where did I leave off on planting in Wide Rows?
#7 Thickness to Sow Seed. For starters, peas and beans are sprinkled 3 to 4 inches apart. They are the only crop that you don’t thin out with your rake when they come up. For your onion sets to plant in a Wide Row is done a bit different. Push them in one by one 1 or 2 inches apart. Throughout the growing season you pull out scallions to give room for the remaining onions to bulb out. For lettuce, spinach and Swiss chard space evenly because it’s easy to see where the seed lands on the ground.
#8 A valuable lesson to use when planting in wide rows is to sprinkle a few radish seeds among your main crop seeds. Their purpose is to serve as row makers, because they come UP ahead of the other vegetables. When the radish are ready to harvest, they loosen and aerate the soil when you pull them out.
#9 A GOOD rule of thumb is, FIRM in the seeds for good germination. Use the back of a hoe to firm the seeds down gently. To have your seeds to germinate well, the seed should be in contact with warm moist soil all around the seed.
I think I’ll stop here, for you ALL come back now to learn more about Growing in Wide Rows.
Deborah’s Buzz Blog
Signing out as
Blessed to be a Blessing
This week we had two Work Bee Days to get much needed work done. On Day 1, I had 5 young girls that planted all indoor seeds in the greenhouse. As well, Jennifer and a young girl tidied up the Test greenhouse. Which we had planted radishes, kale, spinach, lettuce, and Swiss chard. To my SURPRIZE there are small radishes already. For some reason, some of the test planting was sparse. So more seed was added to be LUSH and plentiful. We also had the men start on building the Chicken Coop. The second day the men continued on the Chicken Coop as well the kids planted the strawberries in the gutters. I’m going to see if I can get some 2015 photos posted in the gallery as well. This week I’m getting the ground ready to plant my potatoes first week of April. One thing is, I still don’t have my hiller to make the furrow rows for the potatoes so they have to be ALL done by hand. NOT fun. My tulips that were planted in the tires that the kids painted, have flower heads that one can see the color that the tulip is. Those pictures I’ll have posted as well.
Now where did I leave off on planting in Wide Rows?
#7 Thickness to Sow Seed. For starters, peas and beans are sprinkled 3 to 4 inches apart. They are the only crop that you don’t thin out with your rake when they come up. For your onion sets to plant in a Wide Row is done a bit different. Push them in one by one 1 or 2 inches apart. Throughout the growing season you pull out scallions to give room for the remaining onions to bulb out. For lettuce, spinach and Swiss chard space evenly because it’s easy to see where the seed lands on the ground.
#8 A valuable lesson to use when planting in wide rows is to sprinkle a few radish seeds among your main crop seeds. Their purpose is to serve as row makers, because they come UP ahead of the other vegetables. When the radish are ready to harvest, they loosen and aerate the soil when you pull them out.
#9 A GOOD rule of thumb is, FIRM in the seeds for good germination. Use the back of a hoe to firm the seeds down gently. To have your seeds to germinate well, the seed should be in contact with warm moist soil all around the seed.
I think I’ll stop here, for you ALL come back now to learn more about Growing in Wide Rows.
Deborah’s Buzz Blog
Signing out as
Blessed to be a Blessing