May 25th, where has the spring gone? Just when I thought I was getting caught up, I turn and look and next week is June. Like REALLY??? You know we can get so caught up with the BUSYNESS of this world and ALL that we do, that it would make anyone’s head spin. But just know, you DON’T have to live that way, it’s a choice. Every week when I write my Blog, I SLOW it right down and recollect ALL that has happened and why I do what we do. When I stop and see the lives that are being impacted because of our produce and the long hours we work, IT’S WORTH IT. So even in our daily busyness and chaos, can we say, it’s making a DIFFERENCE in someone’s life today? It’s based on, What Is Our Perspective on what we do? Sometimes when I have my quiet time, I have to ask God why ME? And He says, Why Not You? OK I get it. THANKS!!!
Well last week I believe I left off to entice you all about doing Multicropping in Wide Row Growing.
#15 Now here’s HOW to plant a Multicrop. Now remember this same method I’m about to explain can be done in ANY container growing on one’s balcony or any other small area. You can practically grow a whole salad in one wide row. Here’s a combo that ALL will enjoy. Radishes, Onions, Carrots, OR Beets not both, Spinach, and a SPLASH of color of Lettuce varieties.
Prepare your wide rows as mentioned before. Sprinkle your seeds of Lettuce, Carrots, Spinach, and Radishes over the entire seedbed. Note, that you use LESS seed than you would in a regular Wide Row. When done, the seeds are spaced about ½ inch apart. Tamp down the seeds and rake some soil onto the row to cover the seeds with about ¼ inch of soil. Now you plant your Onion Sets. Push your onions sets about 3 to 4 inches apart in ALL directions. Do NOT plant onion seeds in this way because they will not grow as fast and get covered by the other plants. Keep them to be sown by themselves in another Wide Row. In place of onion sets you can plant Garlic or Leek Plantlets. Then tamp the entire row down with the back of your hoe, to bring everything in good contact with the soil.
Harvesting your Multicrop is like going to a salad bar. Radishes are ready first, leaving loose pockets for the other crops to grow in. Your Spinach, Onions, and Lettuce are ready next. You can PULL up a few Lettuce and Spinach plants from the row each time to make room for the other crops to grow. Then soon your Carrots OR Beets are ready for pulling out. You can leave some of your onions till theirs tops fall down, so you can have some LARGE sweet slicing onions. You WILL notice that any Multicrop planting is as PRETTY as any flower garden.
Next week we’ll get into planting your plantlets and protecting them from later frosts. There is soooo much more to go over to have everything COVERED in order to get the most yield out of your garden. So you ALL come back now cause you never know what I will THROW in to mix things up.
Well last week I believe I left off to entice you all about doing Multicropping in Wide Row Growing.
#15 Now here’s HOW to plant a Multicrop. Now remember this same method I’m about to explain can be done in ANY container growing on one’s balcony or any other small area. You can practically grow a whole salad in one wide row. Here’s a combo that ALL will enjoy. Radishes, Onions, Carrots, OR Beets not both, Spinach, and a SPLASH of color of Lettuce varieties.
Prepare your wide rows as mentioned before. Sprinkle your seeds of Lettuce, Carrots, Spinach, and Radishes over the entire seedbed. Note, that you use LESS seed than you would in a regular Wide Row. When done, the seeds are spaced about ½ inch apart. Tamp down the seeds and rake some soil onto the row to cover the seeds with about ¼ inch of soil. Now you plant your Onion Sets. Push your onions sets about 3 to 4 inches apart in ALL directions. Do NOT plant onion seeds in this way because they will not grow as fast and get covered by the other plants. Keep them to be sown by themselves in another Wide Row. In place of onion sets you can plant Garlic or Leek Plantlets. Then tamp the entire row down with the back of your hoe, to bring everything in good contact with the soil.
Harvesting your Multicrop is like going to a salad bar. Radishes are ready first, leaving loose pockets for the other crops to grow in. Your Spinach, Onions, and Lettuce are ready next. You can PULL up a few Lettuce and Spinach plants from the row each time to make room for the other crops to grow. Then soon your Carrots OR Beets are ready for pulling out. You can leave some of your onions till theirs tops fall down, so you can have some LARGE sweet slicing onions. You WILL notice that any Multicrop planting is as PRETTY as any flower garden.
Next week we’ll get into planting your plantlets and protecting them from later frosts. There is soooo much more to go over to have everything COVERED in order to get the most yield out of your garden. So you ALL come back now cause you never know what I will THROW in to mix things up.
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