Subject: Applestar’s 2019 Garden Oct. 9, 2019
Subject: Applestar’s 2019 Garden Oct. 20, 2019applestar wrote:I bought the growers select organic sampler 1 lbs from Keene. They sent Korean Red, Majestic Porcelain, and Romanian Red Porcelain. All of them are new to me so it will be fun to find out what they are like.
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Ended up with 7 largest cloves of each variety in these raised black plastic mulched rows in VGC (Vegetable Gardenbed C), with 6 holes and 4 holes left over for something else (actually I will be cutting 2nd row of holes later). The holes are 6 inches on the center apart. I sowed the smaller 4 Korean Red and 2 Majestic Porcelain cloves in the Kitchen Garden. (Romanian Red Porcelain cloves were huge and numbered less per bulb, so no extras to sow after saving 2 or 3 smallest cloves for tasting).
applestar wrote:
- Harvested all of the Brussels Sprouts since we did have that first frost I was waiting for (cleaned up the KG.Patio SIP#2 and was going to refresh it and get it ready to plant some winter greens and make a protection hoop cover ... but all that seemed like a project in itself, so made myself put it aside and just cleaned up the patio area into a new configuration.... )
- Made holes between Korean Red and Majestic Porcelain in VGC (Vegetable Gardenbed C)
- Sowed
— spinach, merlo Nero 50d
— lettuce, joker 60d
— lettuce, red iceberg 60d
...pretty sure those new seedlings in the left 6 holes are Tokyo Bekana, but I failed to make a note when I sowed the seeds....
And for the new 2020 season, I started some seeds early in compots (community pots) to be separated and uppotted as they grow. All of these except tomatoes and Manoa lettuce will be moved out to the Garage V8 to grow as seedlings. I want to have some plants that will be ready to harden off and plant (in some kind of season extension structure outside) by early to mid March when the ground starts to thaw —
1/10/20
Location: WP2
Tomato Shimofuri (霜降り) F8 VG.SIP-FR.WP2 << failed to save seeds started to germinate in fermentation
1/16/20
Location: WP2
Onion Giant Zittau
Onion Valencia
Scallion Flagpole
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Lettuce Manoa (mini heading lettuce for Winter Indoor Garden)
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Lettuce Blushed Butter Oaks
Lettuce Joker
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Lettuce Red Iceberg
Lettuce Olga Romaine
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Rutabaga Joan << read turnip seedlings can be transplanted, so giving this a try
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Asian Bau Sin Kai Tsai
Asian Kyoto#3/Komatsuna/Tatsoi/RedRussianKale << mixed saved seeds)
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Location: Garage V8
Spinach Merlo Nero << spinach always fails to sprout when warm but this may take longer