About how far apart are your yard long seedlings/vines? I only had a few vines last year, but planted thicker this year. Wondering if I need to thin -they're about 3" apart right now.

I planted seed about 1/12 inches apart. Most came up and I am not going to thin them.

Thanks, Rita. I was hoping that mine would be okay as they are.

I will try and get a closeup picture later.

The rain is gone today but the garden is sopping wet. Sunshine though so that is good. I was sure all my little seedlings out there would have been beatten to death from the torrential rain but they all look fine.

I was pollinating zucchini again this morning. Seems to be my morning routine these days.

Everyones veggies are looking wonderful. I find it amazing how fast they can grown. Here's my Swiss Chard growing in an Earthbox and some lettuce in a pot. I have 3 nig salads and a couple huge bunches of Swiss Chard so far.

Your chard really looks great.

Mine is just little seedlings.

OK here are the in ground yard long beans. They are supposed to grow up the trellis netting on the right.


These are the potted yard longs. I need to make a teepee for them to climb.

I cheated and bought 4 seedlings. Know from last year that that will be enough to keep me in greens untill fall. Planning on having some for lunch. This is the Bright Lights kind that has stems of red, orange, white and yellow. It's so pretty.

I had Bright Lights last year. I bought it from seedlings then myself. I loved the way it looks, so very pretty. But I was not impressed with the taste so planted regular green chard this year.

Bright Lights is the only kind I have grown. Didn't know there was a difference in taste. I may try the regular green kind next year and see if I like it better.

I am not sure that it might not rain later but I sprayed the tomato plants with the Daconil Fungicide anyway. Each day this week has a chance of rain so no point in waiting. Then I ordered more of the fungicide from Amazon because I use it most of the summer. The point is to try and stop any tomato deseases from starting up this year.

I've been tap tap tapping my feet waiting for the yard long beans and other seeds that were gifted to me to come up! Still waiting....

I put the seeds in a row, under a wire fence. I put them about 4" apart. Hopeful that they will all come up.

Question on beet seedlings. I tried to sew them thick, so I could thin them to use in salad, as I heard they are good that way. How large do you let them grow before cutting? Mine are perhaps 4" leaves now. When I pulled one, I didn't see any bulge on the little root. These seeds were for "mixed" beets.
Here they are a few days ago.

Rita, you want to use the TOPS in salad or baby beets?

If you want to use the tops, yours are big enough but don't CUT, just pinch a leaf or two here and there. Leave some for the beet to grow on. But if you want to pull for the baby beets, it's going to take awhile longer.

If you want to thin in the process, pull the ones with big enough leaves but possibly no beet. Does this make sense?

Juli, I'm doing as Arlene suggests.

Yours will need to be thinned for swollen root production -if you want that. Otherwise, just pinch off the largest leaf/leaves, and enjoy! We're eating these every day now.

daylily said:I've been tap tap tapping my feet waiting for the yard long beans and other seeds that were gifted to me to come up! Still waiting....

I put the seeds in a row, under a wire fence. I put them about 4" apart. Hopeful that they will all come up.

Juli, I am sure they will come up. You only planted them a few days ago.

This is the first time I am growing beets myself in years. I used to use them only for beets as I never knew before now that the greens were good to eat. But I have some golden beet seedlings that will need to be planted in ground.

Celery from seed was a complete bust for me. Nothing, nothing came up. Good thing I have those four Tango celery in a pot that I cheated and bought as seedlings. And looks like if I want parsely I am going to have to buy seedlings as nothing came up in my parsley bowl either. My dill bowl came up but not my cilantro bowl. I have a tomatillo plant this year for salsa and I need the cilantro. Humm, I think I will go out now and just scratch up the potting mix in those bowls and resow the seed. Nothing to loose by doing that.

Boy, you can tell I was tired! Sorry, for some reason I thought it was Rita asking about beets, not Juli

Celery is very slow growing so buying plants would be a better bet. I tried celriack (sp) this year from seed and it's still VERY tiny. A bust! But that's how we learn.

Cilantro is cool weather, even if you get it to germinate it probably will bolt right away. There's an herb called Papalo or something like that, that is considered a "summer cilantro" or a substitute for cilantro in summer. I have found parsley to be a hard one to get to germinate. I got plants and let it reseed itself!

I dug up two varieties of garlic before it started to pour. I got soaked and had to rush to get the garlic under the deck to dry. We grew 15 varieties and a lot of our market customers have been asking when it will be ready. When we cut the scapes last week we were able to sell them.

I reseeded those two bowls, cilanto and parsely . But I don't remember if I tried parsely from seed before, I always bought plants. I have given up on the celery, at least for now. But I should have bought seedlings. Oh well, this is a learning year for me as I am growing lots of new to me things plus bringing back things I used to grow but have not had in years and years.

And every year is different with weather conditions, etc. so we can hope for the best and sometimes it's disappointment, sometimes a pleasant surprise!

abhege said:And every year is different with weather conditions, etc. so we can hope for the best and sometimes it's disappointment, sometimes a pleasant surprise!

So true!