bee boxes recycling peacock lettuce

Gorgeous day before a storm

Eloine

I just put a trellis up for the cucumbers that have sprouted along the left wall. I got all the sprinklers in and the soil mixed so I am assuming in a matter of minutes I’ll be able to fill up these bins!

I bought some seed tape yesterday of some Cherry Belle Radish. They say it was 15 feet however it didn’t even reach around the edge of the bin so that was no 15 feet! I am going to also transplant my summer squash in that bin since the radish will be ready in 22 days and the squash will be ready in 65 days.

Ready to Plant!
Ready to Plant!

Here are some pics from iphone. The seed tape. My mom happy in her garden doing some weeding and the spinach from my bee boxes that are now growing. I put some lettuce containers over the lettuce to speed up the growing of the lettuce sprouts since it’s still a bit cold.

seed tape
seed tape
Happy gardener
Happy gardener
Lettuce covers
Lettuce covers
spinach sprouts
spinach sprouts

Beeboxes and peacocks

Eloine

Just finished getting some old bee boxes I found and recycling for planting a baby lettuce crop. I am told that since we have mild winters here we can grow them right now. I lined these up against the side fence and put chicken wire underneath to protect from gophers. I have bird netting over the top to protect from our large number of peacoks that roam the property. I have weights on the bottom so I can get in and out easily but they can’t 😉

  • I planted Ruby Queen Beets in the first two boxes next to the transplanted honey suckle vine
  • Next to that bin I planted an old seed packet of spinach packed for 2007 from the garden club. Variety is “bloomsdale long standing”. We’ll see if it actually grows. It’s supposed to mature in 45 days. In the same bin I planted Chinese Lantern – also an old seed packet. We’ll see if anything sprouts. In addition the seeds being ’07 I think it’s a little late in the year for planting.
  • For the rest of the bins except the last two I planted the loose leaf salad bowl mix from Home depot that comes in those plastic bags.
  • The very last two is a packet of Green Deer Tongue from Territorial Seed Company.