Pepper Plants
Tomato Plants (We grew these ourselves)
Melons, Squashes, Cucumbers, Pumpkins
Friday, May 10, 2013
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Planning
We will be planting our garden in Central Pennsylvania at the end of next week. We still don't know quite how big it will be, but it sounds as if it will be at least 30'x40'. The cucumber, watermelon, breakfast melon (including the Tigger Melon) and squash seeds came up yesterday and were placed under the grow lights. Hopefully they will be ready to transplant.
The tomato plants are coming along nicely. They will be grown using Earthtainers, which I built 2 years ago. I have ordered red plastic mulch, and new pea fences to make the tomato cages.
When we lived in Iowa, we were fortunate enough to visit The Seed Savers Exchange in Decorah, IA. We try to obtain seeds or plants from them whenever possible. Our pepper plants and Amish paste tomato plants are arriving from them later this week. The seed potatoes came last week.
The rest of the garden will be planted directly from seed. We are planning on putting in sweet corn, purple carrots, beets, in addition to what is listed above. I may try to grow peanuts in a container so the kids can see how they grow.
In the back of the garden, we are going to put in a hut of sorts for the kids, with the walls made out of sunflowers and morning glories.
We are also going to try to grow a giant pumpkin. Check out our other blog, thegiantpumpkin.blogspot.com for more information.
The tomato plants are coming along nicely. They will be grown using Earthtainers, which I built 2 years ago. I have ordered red plastic mulch, and new pea fences to make the tomato cages.
When we lived in Iowa, we were fortunate enough to visit The Seed Savers Exchange in Decorah, IA. We try to obtain seeds or plants from them whenever possible. Our pepper plants and Amish paste tomato plants are arriving from them later this week. The seed potatoes came last week.
The rest of the garden will be planted directly from seed. We are planning on putting in sweet corn, purple carrots, beets, in addition to what is listed above. I may try to grow peanuts in a container so the kids can see how they grow.
In the back of the garden, we are going to put in a hut of sorts for the kids, with the walls made out of sunflowers and morning glories.
We are also going to try to grow a giant pumpkin. Check out our other blog, thegiantpumpkin.blogspot.com for more information.
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