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Yeah, tablets have a different system altogether...I'll try again tomorrow. Just started after our internet was down and then back up. I may have to reset wi-fi settings or something.

Spinach was yummy. I had some on my lunchtime Salsalito turkey sandwich.

Two more tomatoes in today. Amana Orange this time...mulched everything, too. Next, I really want to start my cukes and summer squash. Beans after that.

No signs yet of my self-perpetuating potatoes. Maybe they won't show this year.

Spinach!!! I didn't plant any spinach. I don't see a smilley for hitting oneselve on the head! Too late now. I didn't do celery either. And I have been congratulating myself for being so organised this year.

Chelle, do you direct sow your cukes and squash? I start everything like that inside cause they come up faster. In fact I just noticed that some of my Armenian cuke seeds that I started inside are up so I put them outside.

Chelle, do you have potatoes that come up all by themselves? We always find a few that we missed. Last year, there were quite a few that started growing early enough after we dug up the rest that we got a second volunteer harvest! This year I have only spotted three volunteers but I'm sure when I dig the new row I'll miss some.

My tomato plants I put in April 29th and it turned out to be the right decision. That was very early and they were barely visable in the straw mulch but my how they have grown.


Super Sugar Snap direct seeded into the ground on March 21. Growing great. I just left it to sprawl were it wants to go.


Pots of Mamoth Melting Snow Peas.


And the Sugar Lace II Snaps also in pots.

It's hot here already, after a frost what, just a week or so ago? So yeah, Rita, this year I'm direct planting my cukes and squash. That way I won't lose a couple of weeks due to transplant shock. They'll probably germinate and grow quicker right where they are. I just need to clear a space first!

Arlene, yep, I haven't planted potatoes for a couple of years now -I just harvest whatever comes up. If I start having wireworm issues I'll have to move them, but until then...no way! It's one spot I don't have to do much of anything to in order to get good food. I have catnip planted in the mound -I don't know if that's helping to keep the wireworms away or not, but they're staying too...because it's working.

I used to direct sow my cuke seeds but these days I am impatient and start them earlier indoors. But your right, the direct sown ones catch up quickly.

My little garden is not doing so well this year. I direct sow cucumbers. Sweet Success - only one came up out of a dozen seeds. I also started 4 other kinds. 3 had good germination, 1 had 50%. All of them have had baby leaves for two weeks but have not grown any real leaves. I watered them with some weak fertilizer this morning, something I rarely do. Will see if that helps. My soil had lots and lots of good organic stuff added years ago, but not much since, so maybe it is getting worn out. I bought zucchini and yellow sqash plants and they look like they are coming around now, after being transplanted. Only did one pot of each, which had three little plants. Will probably pinch off the weakest seedling in each hill. My sugar pod peas are doing good, finally getting to be about a foot tall.

I also planted some varieties of leaf lettuce in containers. Some of the seed was packed for 2010, and it did not germinate, so I replanted with fresh seed, and starting to see some germination now. Trying beets and short carrots in long planter boxes. They are up about an inch.

I bought 6 tomato seedlings, but we still had threat of frost recently, so they are waiting to be planted. Today and tomorrow supposed to be almost 90 then more normal so will try to get them in on Wednesday.

I can't figure out what is up with the cucumbers. Maybe they will start taking off once the weather evens out.

Juli, I do find that odd about the cucumbers. Cukes are really easy to start from seed and I use seed from past years all the time with no problems. Maybe it is just too cool for them to take off until some warmer weather. Spring has been really odd this year.

I hope it warms up so you can get your tomato plants in and so your garden takes off. Mine has in spite of cooler weather. Nothing beats home grown veggies.

It is early yet for cucumbers for us, Juli. I don't think I got mine planted until the third week of June last year. Late, but germination was excellent and they grew really fast, so don't give up on them quite yet. I missed the spring lettuce window, so I'll wait to plant for a fall crop now.

I seeded two kinds of cucumbers and three types of summer squash today. Costata Romanesco was so good last year that I planted two hills of it. I'll likely have plenty of squash! I'm also trying a container squash this year called Astia. And of course my fail-safe, Black Beauty.

I also cleared out an area for Banana Melon. I missed it last year!

Egyptian Walking Onions look great in the rose garden. I haven't harvested any yet, but maybe I should check them soon.

My extra horse manure compost piles are growing grass now, so they're likely ready to be planted with anything I run out of room for in the garden proper ...like pumpkins, spaghetti squash and maybe a bit of yellow crookneck. It's been a couple of years since I grew those.

My Pet Project peas are about 2 feet tall now!

Beans are next on my list.

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I love growing beans. I usually, that is for years, have been doing green pole beans but had some bush bean seeds I bought last year by mistake so planted those green beans instead this year. And of course the yard long beans that I tried for the first time last year and fell in love with. Those seeds I planted the other day are already starting to come up.

My cuke seedlings that I put in ground afew days ago have really settled in nicely. Yesterdays all day rainy day helped a lot. Now I see new leaves coming on the seedlings so they will be growing lots.

chelle, your garden sounds like it is well under way.

It is, Rita. I'm always amazed and pleased once I see most of those tall weeds gone! Only three smaller patches in the fenced area left to go!

Ah...you had rain! How lovely! We're supposed to get some in the next few days, but it usually goes around us. We haven't had any since our last frost.

That is why I keep staw on my veggie beds. So that they don't go to weeds. It makes great mulch once the plants are in also.

I didn't know about the yard long beans when I placed my one and only seed order, so after reading about Rita's love for them, I looked locally but could not find them. I will have to order some next year. I put a note in with my seed packets so I will remember.

Oh, Juli I wanted to add that if you still have seed it is not too late to start more cucumber seed. In fact now that it is warmer more seeds should come up for you.

I might have extras, Juli. When I dig them out, if I do have, I'll give ya a shout. It only takes one or two seeds to get plenty of yard long beans!

Poof! Poof. I sprayed my roses with the systemic and now I have to go out and spray my tomato plants. Not with the same thing ha-ha but it seems to be spray day. I decided to start my tomato seedlings with a Daconil Fungicide today while they are small and healthy. Trying to prevent any tomato deseases from getting a start. I think we all know tomato plants are host to a wide variety of fungal deaseses they can get. Easier to prevent than to try and cure. But I am already tired from doing the roses. But then the roses are a big job, the still small tomato plants will go quickly.

I did have good germination on the new cucumber varieties I m trying. Just Sweet Success was a flop. I have some more seeds of it that I would normally use for a second crop later on.

Thanks, Chelle, I think Rita is going to send me a few beans to try!

I need to get going on the Davonil too. I mix up a sprayer full, even though I only have a few tomatoes. Then I spray the rest on my bee balm, phlox etc.