Today was the best gardening day of my life ever! As I posted earlier, my potato plants looked so sad. I was tearing out my peas (which finally stopped producing) and thought I would clear some space for fall crops. I ripped out 3 potato plants, and on the third–up came a potato. What? I [...]
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Broccoli is a COOL WEATHER plant, and grows best when temperatures are between 25° and 75° F.a It does well in the spring and fall, but not during the hot summer.
Spring planting dates
For a spring planting, start indoors from seed 12 weeks before the last spring frost date. When the plants have 4-6 [...]
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Some say none. If you are going to fertilize, use something low in nitrogen. I used a “blooming and rooting” fertlizer (9-59-8) before I saw any flowers, and within days I had tons of blooms, and soon I had peas.
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SFG spacing: 8 per square
Plant directly in the garden in early spring, as early as 9 weeks before the last frost date, and as late as 5 weeks before the last frost date. Plant them as soon as the ground is no longer frozen and you can work the soil.
You may want to stagger your [...]
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Basically, these are potatoes that have not been treated to prevent sprouting. They are also less likely to have problems with disease. You can plant potatoes from the store, but it’s riskier.
One potato can be cut up and planted in several pieces–just be sure each piece has 2-3 eyes and weighs at least 2 ounces. Set the [...]
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Nitrogen (34-0-0) 6 weeks after planting. Too much fertilizer will lead to lots of leaves but little potatoes.
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My plants have small brown spots on them which seem to spread. The whole plant is looking sad, and it’s not flowering.
Probably the problem is blight. The solution is a fungicide.
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Plant potatoes in the spring, 3 weeks before the frost date.
The potatoes should flower–you can harvest “new potaotes” (small, thin skins) 2-3 weeks after they flower. Or, wait until the plants die. Dig up the “late potaotes” (larger, tough skins) and brush off dirt. Store in a cool, dark, dry place until ready to eat. Don’t [...]
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I’ve been somewhat angry at my garden this year. It snowed nearly every week in May, we had several huge windstorms, and it’s been unseasonably cool. The weather feels about a month behind. I figured out that my video camcorder can take pictures, so I finally took some!
Here is my East Garden: vining tomatoes on [...]
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My garden is finally starting to feel successful. Here it is:
If you can believe it, I have been getting TONS of peas–all in July! By the calendar my peas should be long past dead, but instead I’ve had nearly a month of snow pea bliss.
I started harvesting broccoli about 2 weeks ago. The original head [...]
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