The April garden is growing slowly right now, probably due to all of the rain and colder than normal temperatures. The soil is pretty much saturated right now, but the good news is the weather forecast is calling for warmer temperatures into the 70′s, with just a chance of some scattered rain (hopefully nothing too [...]
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The cold frame went up on February 24th, but I have not moved any seedlings out into the frame because it has been too cold. I am starting lettuce seeds today and will move them outside into the cold frame as soon as they germinate (probably in about 4 0r 5 days). I usually like [...] Happy New Year Everybody!! The snow showed up here a day after Christmas. Eight inches of snow fell, which is the most snow we have seen in Indianapolis for about 2 years now. The last of the brussels sprouts were harvested about one week before Christmas. The only thing left to harvest in the garden are [...] Wow, what a difference in the garden since my last blog entry of April 21st. The garden has really taken off. The potatoes are up and about 8 inches tall and the corn has just poked up through the soil. The lettuce is really growing fast now, so fast in fact, that it needs harvesting [...] Wow, the weather continues warm for this time of year. Had a frost advisory for this area a few days ago, but I did not observe any frost in the garden. Received my onion plants from Dixondale on March 28th and planted them the same day. I separated out the really small ones (for green onions) and planted [...] Wow, what unbelievably warm/hot weather weather we have had here in Indiana over the last week. High temperatures have been in the 70′s and 80′s, which is some 20-30 degrees above normal. My overwintered lettuce and top setting onions have exploded into growth (see pics below). I will be harvesting some of the lettuce and [...] Most of my lettuce seeds have germinated and are now happily growing in my outside cold frame. I will be starting seeds of broccoli, cabbage, brussels sprouts, celery, and fennel today. I emptied both of my compost bins this last week and top dressed all of my garden beds with this fabulous soil amendment. The [...] Spring is here (knock on wood). I seeded 72 lettuce plants yesterday. I like to germinate all of my seeds in vermiculite under florescent lights and over a seed warmer mat (see firs pic below). When the seeds germinate, I will move them to the cold frame. The weather forecast looks decent for the next week [...] My Juwel cold frame went up last Saturday, February 18th. I do not have any seedlings in it as of yet. The extended weather forecast looks okay (no super cold temperatures predicted) so I think I will start some lettuce seedlings in a few days. If the good weather continues, I will start broccoli, brussels [...] Happy Belated New Year Everyone!! I have added 2 new pages to my Web Site: Frequently Asked Questions and a Video page. Let me know what you think. A special thank you to everyone who has visited my new Tim’s Square Foot Garden Facebook page. If you have not stopped by the page yet, please do. Don’t [...] |
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