Got a little wet and cold the past couple of days. I’ve had my early cherry tomato plants out and didn’t want to take a chance of losing them. Just an old orange juice container with the bottom cut out and placed gently over the plant has always done the trick for me. If it gets colder at night I will put the cap on but am sure to remove the cap by morning.
If you don’t get the right soil, nothing else really matters. Here’s an example of great soil used in a grow bag made from homemade compost. Pictured in the bag is Queensland lettuce, green ice, claytonia, and red sails lettuce. Harvest it correctly and this small bag will feed you for weeks with a great fresh diner salad.
A quick look at a portion of my garden tonight. I have another area that has much more in it than this. Like we say about SFG: there’s no heavy digging, no hard work, no weeding, no thinning, no kidding!
I’ve got a class coming up in 2 weeks for folks who want to learn how to have a garden just like this. It’s the easiest and best way to garden. If you want to make gardening fun again, this is the class for you.
It’s a great time to begin sprouting a few things inside. These are the crops that will go into the gardens at the beginning of summer. Thinks like cucumbers, cantaloupe, peppers, and basil are things I’m working on now.
A few soil block crops ready to be planted after about 9 days. The soil blocks are so fun and so fast. You can start things inside, harden them off quickly, because they don’t take as long as bigger plants, and then into the garden they go. This is lettuce, lettuce, and some bok choi going in. A couple of grow bags of cilantro and my spring gardens are alive and doing well.
I don’t have a soil block so I put together a homemade version. And it works perfectly. In 17 days, or sooner, these will be ready to plant right into my sun box. After about 10 days they go right into the garden, where they will grow very quickly. What the difference between a sun box and a cold frame? A lot. I’ll be teaching a class on how to have the earliest spring garden possible in zone 6.
7-8 lbs. of potatoes per square!
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