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To: Red_Devil 232
Wife started three kinds of tomatoes from seed in February and these have been in raised beds for about three weeks. I wanted paprika peppers and ordered seed to start. These are kind of wimpy but I think they'll survive. The leaves look crinkly for some reason but the plants are putting on new leaves that look good.
Radishes are done and some of the onions are harvested. Two new raised beds feature three kinds of squash. All our dirt was hauled in by pickup truck. We have no top soil in this part of the Missouri Ozarks but plenty of sun and water from the Lake of the Ozarks via dock pump.
10 posted on 05/18/2012 6:41:00 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
I'm in MD and this spring has been a little crazy, but when isn't it? I've had great radishes and lettuce, am going to harvest some broccoli for dinner tonight. My tomato plants are really coming along. Cabbages are so-so, not forming heads yet, got my cuke seeds, sunflowers, bush beans in, and so far so good. Planted 300 Walla Walla onion plants - we'll see how they do this year. I've tried interplanting marigolds, onions, extra lettuce for ground cover around the cool-loving plants, and that seems to be keeping some of the bugs away. Now that it's getting warmer, we'll see if it works.

Gardening is such a chore and a pleasure, it's "hope springs eternal" every year. One of life's joys.

31 posted on 05/18/2012 10:46:13 AM PDT by gramho12
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