- Maybe be less ambitious with the blog. Admit it: growing stuff is more fun than writing about growing stuff.
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| Organic Beefsteak tomatoes |
- Tomatoes: Don't grow 9 varieties next year.
2014 Winners:
o Chocolate
Cherry (purple cherry tomatoes)
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| Part of the Basil Hedge |
o San
Marzano (indeterminate cooking tomatoes)
o Cherokee
Purple (an excellent slicing tomato)
- Don’t get carried away with kale. (6 – 10 plants; plant spring & fall)
- Don’t get carried away with basil.
- It’s cool to use (some) veggies in the flower beds.
- Stake up the sunflowers!
- Plan on arched trellises: more stable than poles.
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| Scarlet Runner Beans. |
o Beans
o Peas
o Cucumbers
o Squash
o (Maybe
grow sunflowers through the trellis?
- Be more intentional about
o Carrots
o Lettuce
o Beets
o Spinach
- Do less with:
o Corn:
don’t waste the time.
o Squash.
Maybe just Hokkaido
and Pattypan.
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| 1.6 pound tomato (Brandywine) |
o Nasturtiums:
they want to take over. Plan accordingly.
o Marigolds:
specify the smaller size, and plant sparingly.
- Change how I use the greenhouse:
o No
melons in the greenhouse (a pain to pollinate)
o No
cucumbers (a pain to pollinate)
o Only
1 tomato plant in the greenhouse, or even better: none (they don’t need
greenhouse & they take a lot of space.)
o Peppers
are good for greenhouse (easy manual pollination)
o Starts
and such are real appropriate in the greenhouse.
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