Garden Year 2009
8 teepees (32 plants) | 8 teepees (32 plants) |
| 2 First Prize 2 Beauty | 4 Jet Star |
| 4 Big Girl | 4 Jet Star |
| 4 Bush Big Boy | 4 Big Girl |
| 4 Tomande | 4 Big Girl |
| 4 Mt. Pride | 2 Incredible 2 Big Girl |
| 4 Champion | 2 Incredible 2 Lemon Boy |
| 4 Marmande | 2 Country Orange 2 Dakota Gold |
| 4 Country Taste | 2 Yoder's German Yellow 2 Earl of Edgecombe |
| 1 single Italian Heirloom plant |
IN BAGS
| Black Cherry | |
| Black Cherry | |
| Riesentraube | |
| Belgium Giant | |
| Basinga | |
| Steak Sandwich | |
| Gary Ibsen's Gold | |
| Big Boy | |
| Mt. Pride |
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ON LATTICE
| Sweet Baby Girl |
| Juliet |
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IN CAGE
| Red Pear |
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I will be having 65 plants in the garden,this year. Both rows will have 8 teepees with 4 plants per teepee (32 plants), plus one single plant on the far end of the garden.. I will also have 11 in the yard.
April 18:
Seedlings are all doing good. I have to replant some First Prize seeds, but all is doing good now. I raised the light units once, already. The Burgermaster are a late addition to my plans. Since I found out I will have more time to tend to them this summer, I ordered the Burgermaster plants to come in May. The rest I am growing from seed.
I broke down and bought a Topsy Turvy upside down tomato planter and will plant a Husky Cherry in it using coir; instead of potting soil.
May 2:
Measured .2" of rain
May 3:
Measured .1" of rain
May 4:
Measured 1.5" of rain
May 6;
Measured .85" of rain
May 4-5:
Too much rain, plants to tall. Bad combination, so I re-potted them. I will plant at the end of the month.
May 7:
Measured .2" of rain
May 8:
Measured .5" of rain
May 10:
Measured .3" of rain
May 13:
Aaugh! Never order from Gurney's!. Had to change my map again. However, now I finally get to try Tomande.
Threw away the Burgermaster plants I got through the mail. They were diseased, yellow and flatened. Went to a local green house and a market and found........ Country Taste, Black Krim, Champion, Mt. Pride and Tomande. Planted 1/2 of the garden. Hope the weather holds.
May 17 & 18:
FROSTED! Lost 15 plants, including 4 Black Krim, 1 Champion, 1 Country Taste, 1 Sweet Baby Girl, 1 Sun Sugar, 1 Yellow Cherry, 1 Red Star, 1 Green Grape, 1 Sweet Quartz, 2 Bush Big Boy and 1 Hillbilly
May 19:
Went plant shopping AGAIN :) Found some Marmande, a Belgium Giant, Steak Sandwich,
a Juliet, an Italian Heirloom and a Reisentraube.
Managed to replace the Champon, & Country Taste. Also, had a few extra plants at home.
May 25:
Measured 1.2" of rain
Plants look great. No more frost around. Yaay!
May 26:
Measured 2.3" of rain
May 27:
Measured .15" of rain
May 28:
Measured .3" of rain
May 29:
Measured .4" of rain
May update!
We had exactly 8" of rain and 2 frosts, which unfortunately nailed 16 plants. Garden is doing well now and are getting a start. The topsy turvy tomato is curling upward towrd the sun, which is not a surprize.
June 1:
Measured .25" of rain
June 2:
Measured .2" of rain
June 4:
Measured .6" of rain
June 5:
Measured 1.3" of rain
June 9:
Measured .25" of rain
June 12:
Discovered that my Champion plants have lots of tomatoes coming on already.
June 17:
Measured .85" of rain
June 18:
Measured 1.3" of rain
(Man I sure have enough wheat sprouting in garden from my straw. Tomatoes are moving along slow, but sure.)
June 20:
Measured .3" of rain
June 23: Had to throw away Topsy Turvy with plant, as the nursery that supp;lied that plant had Bacterial Stem Canker and came to stores collecting and destroying their plants. I bought a Better Boy to replace it on the teepee.
(FINALLY- I got the garden weeded. It was too hot to mow grass by the time I was done and put clippings on, but I did it them all tied up again. I did forget to spray for bugs and fungus)
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