Tuesday, May 5, 2009

First Week of May, Planting Seeds

My wife spent her spare time planting the garden seeds while I worked on a playset for the kiddies. Following is a list of the seeds she put in the ground this past weekend.
May 2:
Marigolds
Radish -"Cherry Belle" Ferry-Morse (FM) Organic -"Icicle, Short Top" Radish (FM)
Carrots - Scarlet Nantjes and Danvers
Lettuce - Mesclun (Sweet Salad Mix) Burpee Signature -"Bibb" (FM - Organic) -Gourmet Blend (Burpee Signature) -"Black Seeded Simpson (FM - Organic)
Spinach - Bloomsdale, Long Standing (FM - Organic)

May 3:
Beets - "Detroit Supreme" (Burpee Signature)
White Onion Sets - 3 in apart and some 1/2" apart for greens
Yellow Onion Sets - all 3 in apart
Peas - "Pea Progress" & Pea Mammoth Melting (both Burpee Organic)

We also took the tomato plants I started out into the garage to acclimate them for the colder weather outside and purchased a bunch of peppers, cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower plants from the green house. Still have more garden to put in.

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