General Discussion
Vegetable Garden
6/30/04 @ 1:47 PM
Who's got one ? what are you growing ? and how's it coming along? Mine consists of sweet corn , cabbage , brussel sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli ,cucumbers, zucchini, peas, tomatoes , peppers , acorn squash, pumpkins, and assorted spices. The cold wet weather hasn't been very conducive to good growth so far for me. But with warmer weather in the forecast things should turn out. I hope those of you growing fair better.
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BMR, good luck with the celery! I am trying that also this year, have one plant in grown from a store bought celery stalk. Also have 10 plants in I got at Home Depot. Nothing better than fresh celery! I planted 3 early Girl tomatoes outside today under row cover, yes, I'm pushin it a bit. I really like the row cover, grew spinach & onions through the past winter under it, they did well in below freezing temps. Some much needed rain here today, that will get things going!
anything in the nightshade family (potatoes are in the nightshade family, so are peppers and tomatoes), and also anything in the squash/cucumber/melon family the stems can be buried and they'll root. From what I read when growing a single, jumbo pumpkin people will bury the stem and use real fertile soil on top of it so that some of the nutrients the pumpkin is getting will come directly from the stems that will become roots.
Also, since I got such an early start on peppers I'm experimenting with double topping them. They all rebounded from the initial topping and are bushing out nicely. I trimmed a few of the bell pepper and sweet marconis down similar to pruning an outside bush to see if it'll help bulk up the stems. I have a few that are pushing a 1/4" stems which is great to see. Something new I learned this year - as long as a pepper is young enough and the stem isn't starting to turn woody at all, it can be buried up to the first set of true leaves when re-potting or transplanting. I always thought that tomatoes were the only ones that you could do that with.
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