TIP - This might be a duuuuhhhhh! tip that you all know but as I was getting some transplants into the ground by digging their holes with a bulb planter, it dawned on me that the bulb planter would dig up little plants that had sprung up on their own in places they don’t belong. Using the bulb planter seems to dig them up without the damage a trowel does.
All the transplants have been set out except the tomatoes and peppers. I’m working on them this evening but won’t finish until tomorrow. One tray of each never did come up. I’ve decided to only concentrate on getting early starts with tomatoes, peppers and peanuts in the future because the other veggies needed to be restarted two and three times so it’s just not worth the effort.
The berry bushes are doing fine.
I’m still excited over the 15 year old peanuts. Of the 36 started, 30 made it into the garden. Not too shabby, huh!
The corn, cukes and squash that were planted in the garden two weeks ago didn’t come up. I used the last of the corn seeds and don’t plan on ever trying them again since they have never produced an edible ear. I don’t understand why the cukes and squash didn’t germinate so they’ll get reseeded in a few days. Only two squash germinated.
WEEDS!!!! They’re baaaack! Millions and millions of the little buggers. Mostly where the asparagus is and corn was supposed to be, once the rest of the garden gets planted, the corn area will have to be tilled again or something.
That's what I like about the no-till. When weeds show up, dump a bushel of leaves, or some compost or a piece of cardboard, or some mulch over the weeds and smother them.
/johnny
You could pull those weeds out now and just throw them down with the roots exposed and let them “compost” in place or add them to brown compost to give it a Kick.
Peanuts - that’s an 83% germination rate, which means those peanuts are very viable. What type peanut was it? FIY, anything below 70% germination means that the seed’s viability is not so great.
Sure it sprouted, but the lower the germination rate, the less likely to have vigerous plants/good return on harvest.
Best spoil temps for germination of corn:77-95 degrees,Cukes 77-95 degrees, corcubits 77-95.
In additon, most of the info on seed savings that I have read state that corn is simply not that viable after 2 years, so I imagine that it would take some very mindful seed saving to get corn to sprout after the year it is intended for.
I think that bulb planter is the cat’s meow. Great for lots of stuff. I like to use it for making a hole to stick my transplants in.