Saturday, April 25, 2009

First Planting

With a clear sense of impatience, I went ahead and planted radishes and carrots and tomato plants and lettuces.
In Box 1 (see Layout post), I planted 2 rows of radishes and 3 rows of carrots in Row B. I planted an entire packet of Lettuce Mesclun mix in Row A. And 4 different tomato plants in Row D.

The result, a mix of Wow! green things are growing tempered with Yep, still don't know what I'm doing. I also, planted 6 peppers in Box 2.






I picked up a copy of Square Foot Gardening (my parents used to watch this on PBS when I was a kid) from the Horsham Library. I learned that I planted the radishes and carrots and lettuces all wrong.
I'm waiting the radishes and carrots out to see what I can see, mostly. Actually, I transplanted half the radishes close to the tomato plants. This is probably a mistake. None of my radishes seem to be showing the real roots that make them recognizable as radishes. They might not be getting enough sun.
Also, moved about 16 lettuces to Box B. We'll see how this goes. Box 1 will likely be completely redone in the near future, but that happens regularly anyway... right?

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