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Waterscapes Photo Challenge (and Spring Planting)
I try to keep my main planting bed covered in leaves through the winter. In spring, it's fairly easy to rake the leaves aside and scrape furrows in the moist soil to hold pea seeds. This year, my wife made the furrows. I set and buried the peas. If the leaf cover has done its job, there are almost no weeds to remove, and I dig only where I'm planting.
This blog has traditionally been about how to grow and prepare food and it means to stay that way. I've taken detours of late because of family issues (my dad moved out of his house and I spent a lot of time cleaning up after him) and because of health issues (I'm recovering from a Whipple—surgery that removed a pancreatic tumor and re-routed my digestive tract).
Here's a brief "how-to" to keep the blog on course:
It's spring, plant!
With help from my wife, I've started three rows of peas in the garden. I plant a lot so we have peas to eat until July with plenty left over for the freezer. I once posted a video that shows the method I still use – Small Kitchen Garden Pea Notebook. I also wrote a post explaining how-to – Enough Peas to Preserve.
Peas handle frost well, and will even survive a freeze into the 20s. They aren't as hardy in hot weather. In my experience, a variety called Wando handles early spring heat better than most. So, given we're in a streak of hottest months on record, hedge your bets and try to plant Wando peas this year. They grow at least five feet tall, so make sure you rig trellises for them.
I just started seeds for my summer vegetables. My setup this year is on our seldom-used ping-pong table: I used the kids' cardboard bricks to support a four-foot shop light across the five-foot-wide table. The planters are the bottoms of plastic one-gallon milk jugs filled with a commercial seed-starting mix. I set 16 seeds in each planter, for a total of 112 seeds. Soon, I'll add a second shop light and start a few other seeds; once the first planting emerges I'll note what failed to germinate and try again with the same varieties.
Along with peas, this is a good time to plant lettuce, spinach, onions, carrots, and potatoes. All prefer to grow in cool weather and can handle frost—though young potato plants may die back in the cold, they'll quickly make up for it on warmer days.
Start seeds indoors
We're at the threshold for indoor seed-starting. That is, if you don't start yours soon, you'll lose the advantage you get from indoor starts. Ideally, start tomato, pepper, tomatillo, eggplant, and okra seeds indoors six-to-eight weeks before the average last frost in your area. Turns out, if you start eight weeks early—especially with tomatoes—your seedlings will probably need to be transplanted into larger pots before it's time to set them in the garden. That's fine if you have the space to manage it.
Around here, the average last frost is mid-April, so I just planted 72 tomato seeds, 8 tomatillo seeds (a new gardening experience for me), and 32 pepper seeds. It's very easy to do; I've written several posts about it over the years:
Start Your Own Seedlings (this is how I start my seeds)
Small Kitchen Garden Seed-Starting Shelf
Start Seeds in Pellets for Your Small Kitchen Garden
Start Your Small Kitchen Garden from Commercial Flats
Really? Start Seeds Indoors for Your Small Kitchen Garden?
Start Seeds in Pots for Your Small Kitchen Garden
Now, Waterscapes
When I assembled photos for my landscapes photo challenge, my set of favorites from 2015 included way more than the requisite seven shots. Rather than choose seven from among 40, I added a Waterscapes photo challenge to my list—and was pleased to learn that "waterscapes" is a real word meaning what I wanted it to mean.
I've posted seven waterscapes here. Like the landscapes of my previous post, I captured these photos in central Pennsylvania and in central upstate New York—near Ithaca or on the way to Ithaca from Lewisburg.
This photo isn't about art so much as it is about Mom. Mom kept a "life list" of birds she spotted through the kitchen window. Years after I left home, she and my dad bought a shack on a cliff above Cayuga lake and spent summers cleaning, painting, and making it into their vacation lake cottage. I enjoyed visiting the cottage, but I didn't fall in love with it until 2015. I finished emptying and repairing my dad's house, and tenants moved in. That left me with two options when I visited: sleep on my dad's sofa in his tiny independent living unit, or stay at the lake cottage. Stoking a fire in the wood stove to hold off cold autumn nights called back years of semi-rustic living. Waking up at the cottage to sounds of rustling leaves and nautical activity was meditative.
It's possible my mother never saw the birdhouse in this photo. However, seeing it hanging along the stairway down to the lake made it easy to imagine my mom pausing on those stairs to watch birds come and go. I hope to spend time at the cottage this year absorbing the same sensations that lured my parents there.
There are few places that make my dog Nutmeg happier than she is at the local dog park. Far from the park's parking area, there's a stream in which Nutmeg tests her Labrador breeding… and fails. She'll chase sticks into the water and bring them back as long as she never gets in deep enough to swim. Last August, grass seed heads caught sun against the dark waters of Nutmeg's favorite stream.
Mansfield, Pennsylvania is halfway to Ithaca from the Cityslipper ranch. Mansfield boasts a nature preserve with hiking trails, a picnic area, and a boat launch, and I love to stop there to capture photos. Water at the boat launch is a weird shade of blue that makes me wonder about agricultural runoff, but were that not the case the waterway would still be surreal. In this photo, the white flowers lining the river are knotweed—an invasive that looks awesome in bloom. Depending on cloud cover and the time of day, different features pop, so I always discover something new when I stop in Mansfield.
South and west of Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania there are many waterways that flow to the Susquehanna River. I've photographed these streams, creeks, and rivers at so many places, I'm not always sure which is which. It's compelling to me that I could drop a canoe in one of the streams and float in it 140 miles to the Chesapeake Bay and then into the Atlantic ocean.
On trips to Ithaca, I sometimes drive north to Corning, NY, and then up route 414 to Watkins Glen. The road follows a valley with farmland guarded by wooded hills that put on quite a display in autumn. Last October, I stopped to capture photos where wetlands cover much of the valley floor.
Perhaps stretching the definition of "waterscape," this is one of dozens of waterfalls at a Pennsylvania nature preserve called Ricketts Glen. We hosted two Japanese students for nearly three weeks in August, and shared a hike with them along the Glen's most popular trail.
I lingered below a waterfall at Ricketts Glen where the roots of a tree felt their way over rocks to find soil in the creek bed. If you want a photo session in Ricketts Glen, clear the day, go alone, and stay all day… though it's fun to share the trip with a group.
Small Kitchen Garden – Waterscapes Photo Challenge (and Spring Planting)
Nine Tips for Growing Potatoes
These are some of my potato planters. There's about 2 inches of soil in each. I set seed potatoes ON the soil, and then cover them over with straw or hay. That's enough for the plants to thrive and produce a new harvest.
With the Internet, you can learn all about growing potatoes: garbage can potatoes, potatoes in towers, potatoes in buckets, potatoes in straw bales… Of course, the old fashioned way, used by anyone with a rudimentary understanding of agriculture, was to bury a potato and harvest more, fresher potatoes from the same spot once potato plants had grown and withered. That STILL works! Feel free to give it a whirl.
Agriculture evolves, and there's a boatload of stuff you can bring to potato-growing that could improve your results—or at least simplify the job. Here are nine things I've learned that you might find useful… or at least amusing:
I lost interest in the purple potatoes I harvested last season (the skins are unpleasantly thick for a relatively small potato) and left about two dozen small potatoes in a shopping bag in the corner of my basement. With no added water and no soil from which to draw nutrients, the potatoes sprouted and sent stems a full two feet up so the tops emerged from the bag.
1. Plant certified seed potatoes. Grocery store and farmers' market potatoes will most likely grow for you, as will potatoes you harvested last year but haven't yet eaten. The chance that any of these potatoes harbors disease is greater than the chance that certified seed potatoes harbor disease. The world would rather you grow disease-free potatoes (potato diseases can grow with the plants and spread on the wind), so try to oblige it. But, in truth, you don't need certified seed potatoes to grow potatoes.
2. Acidify your soil. Potatoes prefer acidic soil, so you can help them by knowing your soil's PH, and pushing it toward the low side—5 is good, and definitely keep the PH below 6. Fertilizers made specifically for hydrangeas are good also for potatoes.
3. Potatoes are OK with raw horse manure. You can till manure into the soil before planting potatoes, and the potatoes will do fine. Horse manure is acidic, so you most likely won't need other additives to lower your soil's PH. Potatoes also like cow manure, but it's not likely to change the soil's PH.
Purple potato sprouts that grew in a shopping bag for seven months in my basement actually started growing potatoes! Despite having decided I was done with this variety, their tenacity led me to bury the long sprouts in my garden. Healthy plants have emerged and I look forward to harvesting more overly-thick-skinned small purple potatoes.
4. Potatoes don't need soil to grow. You already know this. Who hasn't left a few spuds in the bag so long that the spuds' eyes popped? Amazingly, if you find a way to provide moisture, sunlight, and a bit of nutrition, those freelancing potato plants will make more potatoes. You can drop a potato on soil, cover it with six inches of loose straw or hay, water it to get things started, and it will grow into a potato-producing plant.
5. Potatoes really, really want to grow. Leave a bag of potatoes at room temperature long enough, and they'll try to climb out of the bag! I've had potatoes try so hard under the most unlikely conditions that it was a bit creepy.
This is, perhaps, one third of a seed potato. The day before I shot the photo, I had cut up my seed potatoes into chunks having two or more eyes each. The potatoes had sat out overnight to develop a protective coating over the cut faces.
6. Some potato plant diseases can survive the winter in buried potatoes. Because of this, it's important to remove every bit of potato from your garden in the fall—and not throw any into your compost heap. It also helps to wait three years before growing potatoes or any of their kin—tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant—in the same area.
7. Long season potatoes produce more if you bury the stems. With late season potatoes, when the plants reach about 4 inches, work soil in around them, heaping it until only the top inch of each stem is above ground. Later, when the above ground stems are about 4 inches long, work soil in around them again until just the top inch of each shows. Repeat this four or five times (it's easier to keep the soil on top of the growing potato plants if you grow the potatoes in containers), and then let the plants mature and die back before harvesting.
Harvesting potatoes is a bit like an Easter egg hunt. Here I've moved aside the straw and spotted a small, early potato partially embedded in the thin soil. An advantage of growing in containers is that you can easily scrape through the soil and find every spec of potato.
8. You can turn one seed potato into several. The day before planting, a farmer cuts seed potatoes into pieces—each having at least two eyes. You might divide a large potato into three or four pieces which should sit for a day before planting so a "skin" forms over the cut surfaces. In my experience, you buy seed potatoes by the pound. So, when buying seed potatoes, I examine each one, and select either very small potatoes with two or more eyes, or large potatoes that it's clear I can cut into even-sized pieces each with several eyes. Of course, if you can't hand-select your seed potatoes, examine them before planting and cut up what you can.
9. Potato plants prefer cool weather. Plant them in early spring—perhaps a few weeks before your average last frost date. If plants emerge and get hit by frost, they may freeze off to the soil line, but they'll quickly put up new shoots. Early potatoes do best in spring, but you can plant them in early summer—mid-to-late July—so they're ready to harvest as autumn cold shuts down your garden. Be careful not to let the soil dry out around them; they'll likely struggle in summer heat.
From, perhaps, two planters each starting with four seed potato parts, I harvested enough purple potatoes to fill a large colander. This variety is delicious, but it has unpleasantly thick skin. I'm done with it. Well… I'm done with it after this summer.
Enough Peas to Preserve
When you grow enough peas to stock your larder or freezer, it's important to process them within a day of picking them. During peak season, I harvest about a gallon of pods each day. To keep up with them, I pod them while sitting in an easy chair and watching a show on TV.
Fresh garden peas have distinctive flavor unlike any you can buy in a grocery store. Remarkably, if you blanch and freeze fresh peas from your garden, they'll hold much of that amazing flavor for you to enjoy throughout the year. Growing peas is easy, but I rarely see home kitchen gardens with enough pea plants to provide for a single meal much less for preserves.
Do you want a store of garden peas to get you through the year? You can grow that!
Pea-Growing Fundamentals
Peas thrive in cool weather, and cold only slows them down. Conversely, heat kills. Your goal as a pea gardener is to plant when the "days to harvest" are fewer than "days to summer heat." Usually this means planting as early as you can work the soil—or within a few weeks of that.
I hoe 14' long furrows 6 to 8 inches wide and set pea seeds every two inches along each side of the furrows. Last fall I covered my planting bed with autumn leaves so I had to rake them aside to make my furrows. The benefit of covering over the planting bed is that it emerges from winter with almost no weeds. Sadly, the leaves provide cover for slugs; I imagine I'll be setting out bowls of beer to deal with that problem.
A rule of thumb in zone 6 is "Plant peas on St Patrick's day" (March 17). It is rarely realistic; my garden soil is often mud in mid March. More importantly, when I plant peas that early, they grow at a glacier's pace. I can plant more peas two to four weeks later and they'll catch up with the ones I planted early.
Most years June offers up some stinking hot days, and by July the heat is relentless. It isn't stinkingly-hot relentless, but it's consistently hot enough that peas hate it; they wilt and die.
Peas grow from seed to harvest in about 70 days. Some claim 55 days—British Wonder and Alaska, for example—and shelling, snap, and snow peas may have widely differing days to maturity. I grow only shelling peas and I assume 70 days to harvest.
Counting back from late June, I need to plant peas in early April to give them their best chance. I also hedge my bets by selecting "wilt-resistant" peas. Wando is popular for late planting; it holds up well in early summer heat. Wando pea plants offer another advantage to older, rickety gardeners: the vines grow at least five feet tall. I wrote about this special consideration last year in a post titled Wisdom with Age.
Support Your Peas with Trellises
Pea vines are the most fragile plants in my kitchen garden. The stems flex a bit, but if I handle them too roughly, they crease and everything above the crease withers within a few days.
The earliest sprouts you're likely to see are tiny leaf sandwiches. In cold weather, a sprout may look like this for several days—or even weeks.
Some varieties grow only 18 inches long while others may reach two, three, four, or five feet in length. Whatever the length when mature, pea vines can't support their own weight; they produce tendrils that can wrap around leaves and branches of other plants for support.
It's important to provide trellises. I grew an 18 inch variety once without trellises and the vines grew together as a mat on the soil. This trapped enough moisture that many vines rotted; it wasn't pretty.
Trellises needn't be elaborate. Here are a few styles to consider:
- Use dead tree branches pushed into the soil and leaned against each other.
- Set fence supports at each end of a row and stretch strings or wires horizontally between them at 4- to 6-inch intervals.
- Buy prefab lattice panels (home improvement stores sell 4' x 8' panels) and stand them along rows of pea plants.
- Attach wire fencing (available on 25' or 50' rolls at garden stores—I use 48" fencing) to sturdy stakes that you can hammer into the ground over freshly-planted peas.
Plan to Preserve
Pea patches are among the saddest things I see in other people's gardens. So many gardeners set seeds along a short row—two to four feet long—and that's it! With so few plants, you'll harvest several delicious handfuls of pods over a two or three week period. That's great for snacking in the garden, but you won't have peas for the dinner table. Growing enough to preserve requires a bit of commitment.
In warm weather, pea sprouts can put out leaves in just a few days… but when the temperature drops, so does the sprouts' growth rate.
For a sense of scale, I plant three 14 foot double rows of pea seeds, spacing the seeds about 2 inches apart. To create a double row, I hoe a furrow six-to-eight inches wide and an inch or two deep. I press pea seeds into the soil at two-inch intervals along each side of the furrow and then fill over them with more soil, leaving the furrow slightly lower than the surrounding soil. Then I baby-step lightly along the furrow, compressing the soil onto the seeds.
Each double row holds about 160 seeds—if things go well I end up with close to 500 plants. Some years I buy too many pea seeds and save the extras till the next season. I plant these as described, but before covering the seeds with soil, I scatter extras along the middle of the furrow in case the older seeds don't germinate as reliably as new seeds.
Each of my pea trellises is a 13 foot long section of relatively sturdy, 48 inch wire fencing attached to three wooden garden stakes. I erect a trellis by setting the middle stake with a few whacks of a hammer, then pounding each end stake deep into the soil while pulling it away from the center stake to stretch the wire. Finally, I drive the center stake deep. By deep I mean 8 to 12 inches… I've attached the fencing so each stake protrudes about a foot below the bottom wire. In autumn, I pull the stakes and roll the trellis loosely to store in my garden shed. I'm fortunate: my garden shed could hold two or three dozen rolled trellises; with only three I've plenty of room for other gardening gear and much of our camping equipment.
I finish by erecting my trellises and watering heavily. I keep the soil damp until sprouts appear—sometimes I have to water each day, other years it's cold and wet so watering isn't crucial.
My point, though, is that number: 500. When I plant 500 seeds, we eat peas for a dozen or more meals during the growing season and I freeze between one and two gallons of peas for the rest of the year. I'm a lightweight. There's a garden down the road from me that runs at least 30 yards long and the owners set three rows of peas and trellises each spring! These people grow at least seven times the plants I grow… I'm guessing they eat peas at dinner almost every day.
You won't need as many plants to grow snow peas for preserving… but because I don't grow snow peas I can't guess how many meals' worth you can harvest from a foot-long row.
Succession Planting After Peas
When your pea plants wither in late June, crush them to the ground and set seedlings of some other vegetables among them. I grow winter squash where my peas were, but you could try melons, cucumbers, beans and other vegetables that have short season varieties.
Sure, it's a bit of work to plant peas and erect trellises; more work than for most common garden vegetables. Still, there's nothing tricky about it. If you have enough garden space and you want enough peas to freeze (or to can or dehydrate), you can grow that!
I love this pea trellis fashioned from sticks and wild grape vines. Sadly, this tiny row of plants will produce enough peas for only one or two meals. If you plan to preserve peas from your garden, plant plenty. With rows totaling 42 feet and double-planted, I harvest between 2 and 3 gallons of peas in a season. I freeze about one-and-a-half gallons, and always use them up before next season's peas are ready.
Peas are up in My Small Kitchen Garden
The planting bed went unattended for two weeks after I leveled the newly-added soil; weeds had already asserted themselves. The excavation for the rain garden lies beyond the planting bed in this photo, and you can see part of the drainage ditch I cut along the south side of the garden (left center in the photo). It has been so dry this winter and spring that soil was crumbly in March rather than moist.
On May 17 of 2011 I planted cauliflower and broccoli seedlings in the main bed of my small kitchen garden! On that day, I posted about how miserable the soil was—it had been rainless for a week, but still: big gobs of wet earth stuck to my hand trowel. I planted no other spring crops in the garden in 2011 because rain returned and there was standing water until almost June.
The tide has turned! It's no secret that winter forgot to wint this year (That's a verb, right? A "winter" is someone who "wints," yes?). Then, to confuse perennials, summer started in early February. If I'd been on my game, I could have planted spring crops in the garden then… but that's not me. Confession: I usually plant peas so late that I consider altogether skipping them.
Preparing to Plant Peas
All that summer-weather-in-spring got me into the garden early. I've been excavating a rain garden and moving the soil onto my planting bed. The added soil depth should keep roots out of the mud even in very rainy years. By St Patrick's Day, the planting bed was ready for peas.
It took a bit of weeding and hoeing to prepare furrows for the pea seeds. The bed is 14 feet from end-to-end along the furrows. Each is about eight inches across and two-to-three inches deep. I set peas about an inch apart along each side of a furrow—that's right around 1,000 peas—and cover them with about an inch of soil.
Life got in the way, and it wasn't until March 30 that I finally got the peas in the ground. That's at least two weeks earlier than usual. I want to remove the pea plants at the beginning of July, and they're usually done making peas after ten weeks, so they don't need to be in the ground until mid April.
I've set the broccoli and cauliflower seedlings in the garden and they're recovering from transplant shock. I've also planted onion sets which led me to want more onion sets to plant. Oh! And I've mended and erected the garden fence before rabbits nested in the planting bed.
Having planted peas in March should make me feel as though I have a huge head start on my kitchen garden—especially with all the other projects completed. But the crazy weather makes me feel as though I'm trying to catch up… and if it stays warm as it is, I really do need to catch up.
Here's more from past seasons about planting peas:
Small Kitchen Garden Pea Notebook – 1 – Do you want to grow peas in your small kitchen garden? It's a tough question. Peas require a lot of space for a modest harvest. On the other hand, garden fresh peas taste astonishingly better than any other peas you'll ever eat…
Small Kitchen Garden Pea Notebook – 2 – You've decided how many peas you're going to plant in your small kitchen garden, you've reserved appropriate space, you've prepared the soil, and you have some kind of trellis installed or ready to install. I hope you haven't worked too far ahead. We're about to plant peas…
Small Kitchen Garden Pea Notebook Video – I've planted peas as late as three weeks after the last frost date and still had terrific yields…..
One of my first pea sprouts of 2012! Peas are amazingly hardy. I once left some too long in the vegetable crisper of my refrigerator, and they sprouted! Cold nights and cool days keep pea plants vigorous, but when the temperature climbs into the 80s, pea plants wilt and die.
Thanks to Readers of Your Small Kitchen Garden
Your Small Kitchen Garden's 2011 seed giveaway is done; it closed on Sunday the 13th. and seeds went in the mail on the 22nd. Why the delay? It had to do with an ear and sinus infection. I'm feeling better, thanks, and finally getting back in stride.
Comments on Your Small Kitchen Garden
One great pleasure of running a giveaway is that it usually results in visitors leaving more than the typical number of comments on my blog. For this year's giveaway, I included in the instruction …and make me laugh. I'm so pleased to report that some of the participants succeeded!
Had I been healthy, I'd have commented on comments as they came in. To make up for the dereliction, I thought I'd offer responses here:
Leslie (aka feralchick) – I'm sorry the squirrels beat up your garden last year and am pleased to be able to resupply you with seeds this year. Good luck with the squirrel-deterrent system. Are they using lasers in those things yet?
Renee – I loved the woodchuck photos… they made me laugh. I hope I find time this year to post the woodchuck videos I shot two seasons ago. Such persistent critters!
Cindy Scott Day – Good luck with the squash this year. Bugs were amazing last summer, but I'm surprised you didn't have any luck with the neck pumpkins; they seem as hardy as butternut.
shala_darkstone – I hope you find room for winter squash this season. They tend to take a lot more space than summer squashes, but they're so much squashier I can't imagine my small kitchen garden without them.
Diana – Nice to see you back. Sorry, I've sent tomato, neck pumpkin, and blue Hubbard squash seeds… just got carried away. If you can't use them all, I hope you know other local kitchen gardeners who might.
Nell – I hope you have great luck with blue Hubbard; they are truly amazing when they grow up. Blue Hubbard are very susceptible to squash vine borers, so planting late or keeping the plants under row covers may be necessary.
Justine – Sounds as though your first garden was quite ambitious. I'm so glad to hear that you garden to preserve… my book about preserving produce should be in distribution in a matter of days—I put up many gallons of produce every year. Good luck with the tomato seeds; they produce tomatoes ideal for saucing.
Sherry – I'm touched to hear that you have my blog's feed posted on your blog. I'm sorry I don't keep it more lively… frequency ought to improve a bit this year as I don't expect to be writing a book. I never found a "contact us" form with your mailing address in it… I sent a note via email, but I'm mentioning it here in case you missed the email. Please drop me your mailing address so I can send along your seeds!
Salman – I would love to see photos of squash growing in your garden. Alas, I explained in the original post: I won't ship seeds to other countries (there are usually restrictions on importing agricultural products). I hope you find a local source for winter squash seeds and that you grow a terrific crop.
Jenna Z – If you've poked around in my various blogs, you might have discovered my great enthusiasm for squashes. I like ornamental gourds as well, but I can't admit in a public forum that I actually plant stuff I'm not going to eat. I hope you have good luck with the seeds and I'll look forward to any reports you might post.
Tom M – I hope that at least the neck pumpkins perform the way you'd like. I'm also frustrated by squash's susceptibility to disease and insects—especially to insects. Here's hoping we both have a great winter squash year.
nicky – Hey, you! Grow squash and tomatoes. The only decision will be where to plant them. I hope you'll share your experiences as the season rolls along. Good luck!
meemsnyc – Romas! Funny they didn't work out for you. I always thought Romas were a no-brainer of the tomato family. Perhaps these weird paste tomatoes will give you better luck. Please drop by in the fall and let me know how things worked out.
Bren – I'll try the spray bottle thing this year. Last year I stopped aphids with a spray bottle of garlic oil, water, and soap; why not Squash Vine Borers? Was your story silly? The question was, and that'll do just fine
Annie Haven/Authentic Haven Brand – You're far enough up the list to get a complete set of seeds. I hope you have great luck with them… the tomatoes and neck pumpkins have been cake for me; the blue Hubbard is challenging. Good luck!
TZ – Depending on the weather, it seems squash and pumpkins are eager to die those horrible deaths. Butternut and Neck Pumpkin remain the hardiest, most pest-resistant varieties I've seen. I hope yours do well. That's a nice sequence of photos explaining how you collect tomato seeds over on Flickr.
erynia – How nice to meet another fan of Gardenmom29! One strategy I tried for "expanding" my garden last year was to plant the space hogs near one end. I trained the squash vines over and through the garden fence and onto the compost heap. I may plant squash this year where a vegetable bed abuts one of my wife's ornamental beds. The squash vines could serve as "mulch" around long-stemmed flowers.
Dakota – Thank you for the fire ants story. I really wanted to laugh, but instead I felt the deep despair of human tragedy. I feel self-conscious at Buster Keaton flicks because while the rest of the audience laughs, I choke up at all the horrible things he endures. Those AFV videos in which someone rides a bike off a cliff or faceplants off a trampoline? I don't laugh, I cringe. So, I thought somber thoughts about your toosh as I packaged and mailed your seeds. I'm a simple person; I look for humor in corny garden jokes.
robbie – I hope you have great success growing tomatoes from seed. I'll be starting mine indoors in about 2 weeks.
Jennifer – And you actually got squash off of last year's Blue Hubbard plants! I'm quite jealous. This year, I will vanquish the Squash Vine Borers and bring Blue Hubbards out of the battle zone: mature and ready for the kitchen!
Mika – I hope you haven't cried yourself to sleep over vegetable seeds. Thank goodness for the footnote in your comment… I was feeling all teary that my seed giveaway caused you such stress, but the footnote at least gave me hope that you might have been kidding.
Sonya – I laughed, I cried, I relived the terror of Boston in February, 2011. To borrow a line from VA Nuresmy: And, the fishing episode! We missed all but about 14 inches of the snow you folks hoarded. Even so, I'm hankering for some time with the soil. That wilty grayish powdery thing you described sounds like a damp growing season… or so many squash bugs that their activity promoted mold (which might have appeared about the time the leaves crossed over anyway). With a lot of bugs chomping on the leaves, sap can accumulate and provide a great breeding medium for mold. Sorry you had problems last year; I hope things work out better this year.
Jennie – I love your tomato-growing experience! I plant 8-foot stakes, leaving about 7 feet of vertical support. The plants usually grow 3 or 4 feet beyond the supports; they'd easily reach a first floor roof. Visitors from NY watched me setting my 8-foot stakes and were incredulous that I'd need anything so tall. I guess the shorter growing season up there means shorter tomato plants.
circulating – I recommend not growing vegetables out of any wazoo. Of course, they're your vegetables, and it's your wazoo, so do what makes you happy. Whatever planter you use, I wish you good luck with the seeds!
Joyce Pinson – I hope you have better luck with the Blue Hubbard than I had last year. They are such awesome vegetables! Thanks for your comment about my book. I learned today that it's being bound so copies should be in circulation later this week. So cool!
Marsha Hubler – That first year of wrestling with rocky soil would lead me either to experiment extensively with potatoes and tomatoes, or to establish raised beds and make a whole bunch of compost. Even a few 5-gallon planters on a deck or along a walkway could provide a steady supply of fresh veggies. These days, people set up hay or straw bales and plant veggies in them—apparently adequate to raise all kinds of foods to maturity.
Trent – I so hope that when you say "hanging tomato planters" you don't mean "upside down tomato planters." OK… we can still be friends, but it saddens me a bit to think the progeny of my tomato plants may grow up hanging from their toes. I hope you have better luck with your torture planters than I had when I grew tomatoes upside down.
lauranot – I'm glad you got in on time for the giveaway. "Sugar Snacker" is an awesome name for a tomato. I decided to stop growing cherry tomatoes after the 8th or 9th generation descended from plants I set some 12 years ago failed to reseed themselves.
Thank you so much for participating in my seed giveaway. I hope all you kitchen gardeners harvest lots of awesome produce this season.
Readying for Go in my Small Kitchen Garden
For nearly a month my small kitchen garden and all the land surrounding it has been covered in a four-inch thick iced-snow permafrost kind of thingy. There was snow, then there was rain, and then there was cold. For a while, the crust wouldn't hold my dog's weight and she was obviously distressed by it. Eventually, sunny but very cold days extended the crust through to the ground; we have been walking on ice.
Today, on the closing day of my seed giveaway, the temperature pushed above 40F degrees! That was enough to soften the ice cap all the way to the ground… and it was enough to bring the rabbits out of their holes. As Cocoa and I stepped out the door, we spotted one just beyond the blueberry scrubs at the edge of the yard.
Small Kitchen Garden Seed-Starting Shelf
Start Seeds in Pellets for Your Small Kitchen Garden
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Really? Start Seeds Indoors for Your Small Kitchen Garden?
Readying to Start Seeds in my Small Kitchen Garden
With rabbits out of their holes, it's time for me to get my garden plans in line. I explained various seed-starting strategies and described my seed-starting shelf in a series of posts in February of 2010. For a thorough overview, visit each link listed in the box titled, Strategies for Starting Your Small Kitchen Garden… I've listed them in the order I posted them. Note that this year I'm not using peat pellets or peat pots on my seed-starting shelf.
What am I doing to prepare? I've four tasks:
1. Clear the seed-starting shelf—My larder is fuller this year than it was last year. That's because I wrote a book about preserving garden produce, and I canned a lot more fruits and vegetables last year than I had in preceding years. So, with all the canned goods cluttering my shelves, it'll take an hour or so to rearrange things and hang the light fixtures that will warm my planters and feed my seedlings.
2. Collect seed- starting containers—I'm done with peat pellets, and I'm done with peat pots. This year I'm doing all my seed starts in cut-up plastic milk jugs. Reasons 1: Peat pellets are simple and convenient for starting seeds, but not so good for sustaining seedlings. Once a seedling's roots fill the pellet, you must transplant to the garden, "pot-up" the seedlings, or fertilize them to keep them healthy. Reason 2: To start seeds in any kind of pot, you need soil as well… so I have to buy soil; I can reduce expenses by not buying pots.
3. Ordering seeds—Yikes! I'm on the late side for this little task. In fact, I've heard some popular vegetable seeds are already hard to find. I'm looking for a few varieties of heirloom tomatoes, and for brands of broccoli and cauliflower that perform better than what I planted last year. I'm also very tempted to start artichokes indoors, move them outdoors in April, and see whether I can harvest a few by season's end.
4. Well… buy seed-starting soil—I have some left from last year, and the nursery where I shop won't open until mid-March, so no hurry on this one.
Small Kitchen Garden: The Friend Maker
Your Small Kitchen Garden catches up with even more posts about what went on in the garden this season while the kitchen gardener (Daniel) was busy writing his book Yes, You Can! And Freeze and Dry it, Too.
A Kitchen Garden Photo Session
I've spoken a few times about a man I met in 2009 when I spotted his small kitchen garden and asked whether he'd let me photograph it for my blog. In the summer of 2009, this man had a somewhat weedy planting bed supporting mature tomatoes, greens, beets, summer squash, and asparagus. I tried to add depth to my photo of this planting bed by capturing a heavily-laden grape arbor in the foreground.
During my photo shoot which, sadly, I tried to complete on a heavily overcast day, this friendly old man shared stories about his gardening and his family. Turns out that his wife had cooked rhubarb into treats, but since she'd died he had no further interest in the plants. The enormous bed of asparagus apparently had fed his family, but now produced so many shoots that he'd harvest and compost them to keep the plants producing for his occasional meals into the summer.
Kitchen Gardening Twilight
This nice man told me he planned to remove his rhubarb plants, so I offered to do the job for him in exchange for the plants. I returned in the spring, moved the plants to my garden, and reported about my experience in a post titled Small Kitchen Garden Rhubarb Project.
To thank my new gardening friend, I baked and delivered a strawberry-rhubarb pie. After a short chat at the front door, he invited me around to the planting bed where he explained that he just couldn't get motivated to plant a garden this year. Strawberries were in season, but he'd planted nothing yet.
So I asked whether he wanted a garden; of course he did.
The Two-Hour Kitchen Garden
This had been the season of too many. I had ended up with double the tomato and pepper seedlings I'd planned, and I had broccoli and cauliflower plants that simply weren't going to fit in my garden. As well, I had bought extra lima bean and string bean seeds… and quite a few butternut squash seeds.
I also had kids (still have them, come to think of it). They agreed to go with me and plant a garden appropriate for a bachelor.
The planting bed had spent winter and early spring under black plastic. We were able to peel back the plastic and, with very little digging, raking, or hoeing, plant all the seeds and seedlings we'd taken along with us. I used several stakes from my garden to erect a trellis for the tomato plants, and we covered as much soil as we could with black plastic. We finished the job in about two hours.
Kitchen Garden Challenges
I visited about a month later and found the garden was way, way behind my own. I had watered during an early dry spell, and my friend had not. Worse: a woodchuck had dined on beans and broccoli before my friend had captured it and released it many miles outside of town.
I meant to visit one more time in the fall, but that clearly isn't going to happen. Still, I'll check in mid-winter so I'll know whether to start extra seeds for my friend's 2011 small kitchen garden. My kids clearly don't like gardening, but I think they'll be willing to chip in if we can finish the job in under two hours.
Call To Action
I posted this story before I went to bed early on Saturday morning. As I woke up later that day it occurred to me: I should have encouraged the world to act! Here's an amendment to the story.
Please help in an aged neighbor's vegetable garden! It's likely there are hundreds of thousands of aging gardeners who lack the energy or motivation to plant the family vegetable patch. Find one and extend an offer to help! We spent just TWO HOURS to plant in a well-established bed. For that, a lonely, pleasant, and very appreciative old man had a season's fresh vegetables that called back decades of produce he'd grown with his family.
It was a simple, painless gesture that I'd love to see repeated by my gardening friends all over the world.
Start Seeds in Pots for Your Small Kitchen Garden
Starting seeds for your small kitchen garden requires very little space. I can start more than 300 seedlings on a single shelf that happens to be in my larder. These cauliflower seedlings sprouted in about three days and are thriving two inches beneath full-spectrum fluorescent tubes. In about a week I'll move the seedlings outdoors for a week, and then I'll plant them in my garden.
In recent posts, I've explored reasons why a kitchen gardener might choose to start seedlings indoors, or buy seedlings from a garden store or nursery. Assuming you've decided to start your own seedlings for your small kitchen garden, let's take one more look at how to go about it.
If you want to use those seed-starting peat pellets that seem so omnipresent in department and gardening stores, please have a look at how I use them. I wrote about them enthusiastically in a post titlted Start Seeds in Pellets for your Small Kitchen Garden. If you'd rather try starting seeds in soil, read on; this post explains how.
My family drinks a gallon of milk every day so I'm always looking for uses for empty milk jugs. To reduce spills on my seed-starting shelf, I create shallow pans by cutting the sides out of the jugs. (I use a utility knife, but sturdy scissors will do the job nicely.) One of these pans handles a six-nursery-pot flat as you can see in this post's first illustration.
Seed Starting Containers
Starting seeds indoors in soil is very similar to sowing seeds outdoors directly in a planting bed. How you'll use the seedlings may influence what types of containers you choose as planters. For example, if you're growing seedlings for a container garden, you could start them in the planters they'll occupy through the entire growing season. You can move them outdoors on warm days in late winter and early spring, and move them back indoors when frost is in the forecast.
However, to get the most out of limited seed-starting space, it makes sense to start seeds in small pots or nursery flats. I prefer flats made out of pressed peat moss or brown cardboard. These typically come in 10-cell units, and you can easily cut them or tear them apart into smaller sets.
I like to plant two seeds in each cell of a flat, but if you want to keep things simple, plant just one. If you're tough-hearted, plant two seeds and cut off or gently pull one plant if two emerge from the soil. Sometimes seeds don't sprout, so you increase your chances of getting one per pot if you plant two seeds.
I separated a flat of ten nursery pots into flats of four and six pots. I set the six-pot flat into a pan made from a gallon milk jug, filled the individual pots with commercial potting soil, and added water. I like to water before I set seeds because watering can disturb the seeds and even wash them out of the pots. To plant, I use the point of a chopstick to poke depressions in opposite corners of each pot; two depressions per pot. The depth of the depressions depends on planting instructions on the seed packets. I drop one seed into each depression and I smooth the soil over, tamping it down a bit to make sure it comes in contact with the seeds.
Cauliflower and broccoli seeds are small, but I can usually pick up one at a time with my fingers and drop it where I want it. If you have trouble working tiny seeds with your finger tips, use tweezers… but be gentle so you don't crush your seeds.
Super Budget Starters
While flats and peat pellets provide tidy organization for your seedlings, plants don't require individual pots to get a good start. As I explain in the photo captions of this article, I start two plants in each sprouting pot and then separate the seedlings when I transplant them into the garden or into larger pots. Many folks start a dozen or more seeds in a single tray—a baking dish or food-storage container, for example—and dig up the seedlings to transplant them later.
I like gallon milk jugs for this. You can make a seed-starting planter using the bottom section of a jug, or by using a section that includes the flat side of a jug (see photos).
I started planting two seedlings per pot figuring it improved my chances of getting a seedling in every planter. If two sprouted, I'd cut one away and let the other mature. When two sprouted in every pot I planted, I didn't have the heart to kill the runts. So, when I took them to my garden, I gently tore the pots apart and planted the seedlings separately. My point: seedlings won't care if you plant two dozen seeds per container. You can fit a lot more in less space when you do this… but make sure you use a big enough container that you'll be able to separate the seedlings later. Here I cut the bottom off a milk jug, and the side off a milk jug to create two seed-starting planters. I might start twenty seeds in the smaller planter and thirty or more in the larger one.
Should you poke drainage holes in the bottoms of these milk carton seed-starting trays? I don't. I check on my seed starts at least once a day. I can tell whether the soil is damp, and I add only enough water to keep it that way without flooding my planters. If you find it challenging to judge how damp the soil is, perhaps you should add drainage holes… but make sure that you also place platters or pans under the planters to capture leaks.
Soil for your Seeds
You can use soil from your planting beds to start seeds, but I suggest buying potting soil or seed-starting mix. Why? Three reasons:
Some potting soils are so poorly formulated that they actually repel water. You can make a depression in such soils, fill the depression with water, and the water will evaporate without ever soaking in. If the soil you buy is like this, pour what you'll use into a bucket, add water, and stir until the soil is all damp. Use this moistened soil to fill your pots, and as long as you keep the soil moist it should absorb water adequately.
1. Potting mix is likely to be free of viable seeds, roots, and tubers. Soil from your garden may host any or all of these, and you could end up growing a lot more than what you intend.
2. Potting mix is likely to be free of molds, fungus, and bacteria. Garden soil may harbor all these nuisances, and infect your seedlings. Planting seeds in commercial potting soil gives your seedlings time to grow strong before they have to deal with microbial challenges.
3. Unless you brought several gallons of garden soil inside last autumn, you might not be able to dig any out of the garden until after an appropriate planting date for your seeds. When I should be starting cold weather crops (brassicas, peas, lettuce, and spinach) indoors, my garden is usually frozen and buried in snow.
Once you've Planted Seeds
Your newly-planted seeds need moisture and warmth. Immediately upon sprouting, the seedlings also need light… not just sunlight from a south-facing window, but some kind of supplemental lighting to assure the plants don't grow spindly and weak. I explained these issues in a post called Small Kitchen Garden Seed-Starting Shelf. What I've learned since writing that post is that the fluorescent light fixtures produce enough warmth that my shelf is about 75F degrees even though the rest of the room runs about 60F degrees.
Don't Buy Wet Potting Soil
I had a most frustrating experience last season with potting soil: I bought a large bag of commercial mix that a local nursery used for their seed starts. It was great stuff; my seeds and seedlings loved it.
Later, I purchased a second bag to handle some container gardening experiments. This second bag had been stored outdoors and had what seemed to be a minor tear in the bag. Everything I planted in soil from the second bag was stunted and unsatisfactory… as though there was a growth retardant in the soil.
The first bag of soil had been bone dry within; I could lift the bag effortlessly though it held many gallons of soil. The second bag had been soaked through; I could barely lift it. I suspect that the second bag of soil, once wet, had become a growth medium for some microorganism that was either infectious to plants, or that produced chemicals toxic to root health.
I now live by this creed: I will not buy bagged potting soil that is noticeably moist; if it's not dry in the bag, the soil may be hazardous to your seeds and seedlings.
Really? Start Seeds Indoors for Your Small Kitchen Garden?
Broccoli seedlings emerge within a few days of planting. In fact, the first time I planted broccoli seeds, I was astonished to see sprouts two days later. It's kind of exciting to have a small garden spot in my house while snow lies on the land outside, but starting seeds indoors isn't for everybody.
The ground is frozen and there are three inches of snow on my small kitchen garden, but I've already started to plant! Yes, I'm starting seeds indoors well ahead of spring. I didn't used to do this, preferring, instead, to let someone else start seeds so I could buy flats of seedlings when the ground was ready.
Why not just Plant Seeds in the Garden?
No, really: sowing seeds directly in the garden is great gardening strategy. To do this, you need seeds and a little labor… it doesn't get easier than that. However, if your seeds' planting instructions proclaim plant after all danger of frost passes and 120 days to maturity, you'll need four gorgeous months before you harvest your first vegetable. Plants that mature in 120 days usually have a lot more productive days after they mature… if there's any growing season left.
In zone 5B last year, we had frost in late May. So, the frost-free season was just long enough to go from seeds to maturity. This really isn't good enough. When you have such a limited season, starting seeds indoors early can significantly increase your yield.
It gets better! When you have a reasonably long growing season, starting seeds early lets you do two or even three plantings. I like to start peas, lettuce, and spinach from seed in the garden as soon as the soil thaws in March and April. These tend to expire in June, so I can plant winter squash in the same space. Were I to start these indoors from seeds, I could start harvesting lettuce and spinach within weeks of transplanting outdoors in March… and I'd probably be harvesting peas three or more weeks earlier than I usually do.
Of course, by finishing spring crops early, I create a longer season for summer crops, and that gives my fall crops a bit more time to grow before a deep freeze shuts down my garden in the fall. By starting seeds in containers, you can increase the variety of vegetables you grow in a particularly small kitchen garden, keeping your planting beds more productive throughout the growing season.
There's not much growing on my seed starting shelf, but we're still a few weeks early for most starts. I have four tomato seedlings that I've just transplanted from a single starting pellet into individual pots, four broccoli sprouts, and a bunch of planters in which I set seeds minutes before taking this photo. In about three weeks, the shelf will be crowded with tomato and pepper seedlings. Realizing I could manage seed starts on a shelf in my larder solved a lot of problems related to space and tidiness. Still, maintaining all of this will occupy fifteen or more minutes each day until I start transplanting seedlings into my small kitchen garden.
Starting Seeds is a Commitment
Starting seeds indoors can be seductive. It's quite a rush to see the seedlings push out of the soil and stretch toward the lights. With many flats of seedlings on starting shelves, tables, counters, or windowsills, you create an inviting garden spot at a time when your yard and garden may be barren and uninviting.
But I encourage you not to get carried away. As I suggested earlier: you can buy flats of seedlings and get the same season-extending advantages you get from starting your own seeds. To provide a fair-and-balanced perspective, here are several reasons not to start your own seeds indoors:
1. You simply may not have the space. Last year, we couldn't play ping-pong from March until May because someone (tee-hee) had taken over the ping-pong table to start seeds. After my mom died, my dad removed the cushions from the window seat in his living room and set up flats there to start seeds; it's a bit awkward to have that mess in your living room when you're hosting a formal dinner.
You don't need a lot of space, but you need to be able to control the climate and lighting, to manage soil and water spills, and to keep your house pets off of your nascent seedlings.
2. Starting seeds is work. You're not likely to wear yourself out with your seed starts, but you can't rely on nature for success. Seed starting pots or peat pellets can easily dry out in 24 hours, so you'll probably need to water once a day. You'll also need to adjust your lighting as the seedlings grow, and you may end up having to transplant into larger pots if you can't get your seedlings into the garden as quickly as you expect when you're starting them.
3. You may have saved lousy seeds. Especially if you harvested seeds from hybrid varieties of produce (Burpee loves to sell hybrids), the plants that emerge from them may develop fruits or vegetables distinctively different from the parent fruits or vegetables. Heirlooms are more likely to breed true, but insects may cross-pollinate your heirlooms with other varieties, and the resulting seeds also can produce unexpected results.
Freshly-transplanted seedlings languish for a week or two before they start growing again. These look a little sad because I transplanted them just a few days ago. I expect they'll perk up soon, and put out some new leaves. I planted these seeds very early to test the viability of seeds I'd harvested from last year's tomatoes. I gave away bunches of seeds, and I wanted to be confident they'd sprout for their recipients. Once I start a plant growing, I find it very difficult to let it die… or worse, to kill it
4. You can bury yourself in seedlings. If you have enough room to start dozens of flats, consider the eventual disposition of your young plants: You will some day transplant them into your garden. This could become more work than it's worth. Sowing seeds directly in your planting beds is far easier than setting seedlings. So, unless you really need the extra growing time, you might be happier simply sowing seeds. If you want some early lettuce and spinach, start a dozen or so seeds indoors, but save the rest to sow outdoors for a slightly later 2nd harvest. I can't imagine starting the several hundred pea plants I grow each year and transplanting them later.
Which Plants should you Start Indoors?
Don't let anyone tell you which plants you must start indoors. Just about any vegetable is fair game… though I'd encourage you to start all root crops in your garden; transplanting may damage the roots enough that they might produce no usable food.
I'm too lazy to start fast-growing cool weather crops indoors. These don't live long anyway, and I can wait the additional two or three weeks before I start harvesting greens. Still, I remember having fresh garden salad at a friend's house one March about when lettuce seeds were just sprouting in my garden. My friend had planted from store-bought flats the moment she could work the soil. Compelling.
Of the plants I grow routinely, I start tomatoes, peppers, and squash indoors because they need a long growing season. Most of us eat peppers before they ripen, but if you want red peppers, you need to give them 100 or more days to develop (Once you pick a green pepper, it just won't turn red.)
This year, I'm also starting broccoli and cauliflower indoors. These won't mind a heavy frost, so I can set seedlings in the garden when I'm planting lettuce and spinach in March or early April. Broccoli especially can produce all season, but I expect I'll lose interest in the plants in June so I'll replace them then with bush beans (sown directly in the garden) that mature very quickly.
Start Your Small Kitchen Garden from Commercial Flats?
I'd like to have one of these in my yard. It's a commercial greenhouse about three miles from my home, and they've laid out row upon row of flower seedlings. Seems like a waste of resources as I'm sure no one will be eating these plants. Still, in a few weeks there'll be vegetable and fruit starts on many of the benches here.
So many kitchen gardeners in the northern hemisphere are seriously into this year's growing season. Southerners may already be sowing seeds and transplanting seedlings outdoors—or even harvesting mature vegetables (I know this because so much fresh produce in our grocery stores has flown in from southern California). Northerners are starting to plant seeds indoors.
I encourage new kitchen gardeners to sow seeds directly in their planting beds except for crops that require long growing seasons. For those, I suggest buying seedlings from garden stores and nurseries. Why? Because it's easy. There's no sense in making gardening hard when you're just getting started.
While I encourage you to buy seedlings, it's important to know that buying flats from a garden store isn't a panacea. Now, six to eight weeks before you'd buy those flats, is the time to decide whether you're going to. If you'd rather start your own seeds, you'll need to do so soon… perhaps within the next two to three weeks.
Some Good Reasons not to buy Seedlings
There are many downsides to buying seedlings in a garden store. Here are several:
1. Your options tend to be limited. A decent garden store may carry a dozen types of tomato seedlings—mostly, hardy hybrids. You may find three or four dozen varieties of tomato seeds at an online garden store. These could include the hardy hybrids, but they'll also include heirloom tomatoes you'll never get to taste if you don't grow them yourself.
2. Nursery plants may be stressed. Nurseries face one overwhelming challenge: they can only guess when to plant seeds. If they guess wrong, their seedlings could be pot-bound and "leggy" by the time anyone wants to plant. For tomatoes, this isn't really a problem. But many vegetables grow weak stems in the garden when you transplant them from overcrowded nursery pots or flats.
3. Seedlings are pricey. For a four-pack of six-week-old plants, you could pay $3, $4, $5, or more. For a decent seed-starting kit that could start 36, 72, or even 144 plants from seeds, you might pay $4 to $6. A few packages of seeds might cost another 4$ to $6. So, for $12 and minimal effort, you can start nearly 150 plants worth, conservatively, 75 cents apiece.
4. You harvested seeds last year. Harvesting seeds is amazingly satisfying: it provides a sense of continuity from one year to the next. What's more, if you save seeds from last season's crop, you don't have to buy new seeds this season. I'm starting tomatoes, peppers, herbs, and several types of squash from seeds that grew in my small kitchen garden last year.
A garden center may not have facilities to "pot up" seedlings when the last frost is slow in coming. You may find tall, pot-bound plants are your only option when you choose commercial seedlings.
5. Nurseries may sell you trouble. In 2009, late blight destroyed gardens all over the northeastern United States. Disturbingly, the news media reported that late blight was present on tomato seedlings sold in garden departments of big-box stores. This was an unusual occurrence, but it illustrates true risk: when you buy seedlings, you can't be sure whether they carry diseases or malicious insects.
6. It may be challenging to go organic. If it's important to you to maintain a strictly organic regimen, you might not find appropriate seedlings at a garden center. Commercial growers may choose potting mixes that include slow-release fertilizers and other non-organic additives. Also, most commercial suppliers aren't concerned about whether the seeds they start originate from suppliers who produce them organically. If you want to start from flats of organically-grown seedlings, call around now to be sure you'll be able to buy them when you're ready to plant.
Still, Commercial Seedlings Rock
For all but one of my gardening years, I bought flats of tomatoes, peppers, broccoli, and cauliflower at garden stores. I had a lot of reasons for this and I'll share them in my next post. In all the years I bought flats, I was never disappointed: broccoli is broccoli, cauliflower is cauliflower, tomatoes are… well, no. The main reason I thought to start seeds myself was a feeling of deja vu I got each spring when selecting from five varieties of beefsteaks. Last year was the first season I started my own seeds indoors and I'll never go back.
If you're planning to buy seedlings this season, do a little research now: locate gardening centers or nurseries in your area and ask whether they start their flats from seeds. If they don't, at least try to find a store that buys seedlings from a local grower. The farther your baby plants have travelled on their way to your small kitchen garden, the more opportunity they've had to develop problems.
A few articles that mention flats of vegetables:
- friday fill in #124. – 7. and as for the weekend, tonight i'm looking forward to going to the garden center with ms 12 & mr 9 to get our vegetable flats & maybe planting some of them – weather permitting, supposed to be scattered showers all weekend! tomorrow …
- Vegetable flats behind our garage store | This Week – Here we see about 1/5 of this season's vegetable flats as they're getting ready to go out into beds for this summer. We seed flats continuously, and plant on a rotating basis to keep plenty of vegetables growing …


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Shark Fin Soup
|Dried shark fin
|1⁄4 Kilogram
|Chicken meat
|1 Cup (16 tbs), boiled and shredded
|2 Medium, sliced
|4 Large (Soaked In Hot Water For 30 Minutes)
|Sliced ginger
|2 Teaspoon
|Bamboo shoots
|50 Gram (Canned Or Boiled)
|Wine vinegar
|1 Teaspoon
|Rice wine
|1 Tablespoon
|Soya sauce
|1 Tablespoon
|2 Teaspoon (Leveled)
|1 Teaspoon (Leveled)
|Corn flour
|1 1⁄2 Tablespoon
|Peanut oil
|2 1⁄2 Tablespoon
|Secondary broth
|7 1⁄2 Cup (120 tbs)
Boil the shark fins in water for 20 minutes.
Drain the water and fill the pan again fresh with boiling water and cook for 20 minutes.
Repeat the draining and boiling process 4 times.
This preparation will take 2 hours.
Bring 1 1/2 cups secondary broth to the boil.
Add sliced onions and ginger.
Add the drained shark fins and cook for 15 minutes.
Bring to the boil then drain off and discard the broth.
Remove the stalks from mushrooms and shred the caps.
Thinly slice the bamboo shoots.
Heat oil and saute, shark fins, chicken, bamboo shoots, stir well add wine and vinegar.
Continue cooking until dry.
Pour remaining broth into the pan.
Add soya sauce, mushrooms, sugar and salt.
Mix cornflour with 1/2 cup water and add to the soup.
Stir well.
Let it simmer for a few minutes more and remove.
Serve hot.
(In China shark fin is eaten to prevent brittleness of bone, after 30 years of age it is taken regularly).
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Nutrition Rank
Nutrition Facts
Serving size
Calories 348 Calories from Fat 130
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 13 g20.7%
Saturated Fat 3 g15.1%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 93.3 mg31.1%
Sodium 4980.2 mg207.5%
Total Carbohydrates 16 g5.3%
Dietary Fiber 5.6 g22.5%
Sugars 4 g
Protein 37 g74.6%
Vitamin A 2.3% Vitamin C 16.6%
Calcium 9% Iron 9.7%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet


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Napoli's big day vs. Cody Ross' bigger dayAugust 26th, 2010, 1:55 pm by Earl Bloom, staff writer
Earlier today, Sam Miller correctly wondered if Mike Napoli's 6-RBI day will earn him any additional playing time from Mike Scioscia.
This reminds me of a story involving a player I have written about (for other reasons) earlier this week, now-Giants outfielder Cody Ross.
Ross was briefly a Dodger in 2006. In his second (and last) start in the outfield for them, he had a three-hit game April 13, 2006, against the Pirates that included a grand slam and a three-run homer for seven RBIs.
That performance earned Ross exactly two more at-bats as a Dodger, before he was designated for assignment and eventually traded to the Cincinnati Reds for a player to be named (the immortal Ben Kozlowski) -- just eight days after his big day in Pittsburgh.Read the rest of this entry »


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It's been my worst enemy & best friend since the beginning. At least since adulthood. For a decade I've lived strictly by an alarm's dictating eruption, blaring anywhere from an hour to six apart, no less than 5 times a day. Depending upon how alert I am, will determine how many I need set that day but either internal or tangible they're ringing with their incessant reminders that time is not my friend in this regard.
It's not a stroll in the park, the ocean breeze wafting through the air on a crisp summer Saturday, an understated pan of double chocolate chip brownies baking for their last minute.
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Who will be here to meet joy? Peace, hope, long-suffering? I cannot answer that yet as time continues to mask itself as a fruit. I mask myself. With the only One Who understands. He continually says wait. I ask when. He hears but refuses reprieve. I cry, I beg, I plead. He guides silently to Words. Comforting Comforter, but wanting more. Time.
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Kaiser Permanente opened its 23rd medical office building in Orange County. The 60,000- square-foot Tustin Ranch Medical Offices at 2521 Michelle Drive provides family medicine, optometry, radiology services and pediatric care. It includes a lab and pharmacy but does not provide emergency or urgent care. The facility is staffed by more than 60 professionals.
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Dawlat Zadran to Wright, no run, top response from the bowler, filleting Wright with one that leaps off a length and goes between bat and body and over the stumps
Dawlat Zadran to Wright, no run, length ball outside off, zips off the pitch as Wright advances and attempts to hit him into the Indian Ocean, only to fail to connect
Dawlat Zadran to Wright, no run, he gets it right now, full and wide and the ball stays low, Wright hacks off the back foot and under-edges low through to the keeper
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Blazing hot the Sun is, yes, Should the filthy side of our minds ever come to rest? Godly good we are to us and few, ................................... But equal to Satan , are we, deep in the sinew. ............ We are ourselves and we really don't know, ................ For, at times, we don't hesitate to destroy ourselves,................................... O, where should we go?...............
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