Winter Planting
January 3, 2009
The hurricane and a couple personal issues forced me to put this project as well as most of the garden on hiatus for the fall. The cherry tomatoes (actually grape tomatoes) did fantastic in the container. Been harvesting batches for 6 weeks now. The bone meal seemed to do the trick. The cucumbers I planted a week or so later didn’t fare as well. I got one nice big cucumber off two plants. As I mentioned though the garden was greatly neglected this fall.
Since it was about 85 degrees out today, I was in the mood to try a winter planting. In bed number one I planted a Mesclun mix. The seed packet was pretty old, so I’m not expecting much. I finished the other half of the bed with red leaf lettuce seeds.
In bed number two I planted half beets and and left the other half ready for kale which I’m starting indoors.
I was running quite low on compost so I added some peat moss left over from my failed blueberry experiment to get some more organic material in there. I instantly regretted adding as much as I did as the bed turned that peaty orange color. Oh well…
