Breaking Up (Ground) Is Hard To Do
We now have approx. 8% of the rows set aside for 2010 prepared to the point they have seed in them. Our in ground crops germinating include: string beans, snow peas, lettuce, snap peas, soy beans, swiss chard, pak choy, and spinach. Tomorrow, gonna go try and score the biggest watering can EVAR!!! Will let y'all know how it goes.
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Pro-Tip: One normal size seed package of Soy beans contains about 50 seeds. So...uh....at the recommended seed spacing of 1 per 4" that's, well it's about 20 feet. That's 0.01% of our available row space. Kinna a little less than I'd imagined. So, I reckon I'll just let all glorious 20' of them go to seed so that next year I can plant FORTY FEET of SOY BEANS and then the NEXT year I can plant EIGHTY FEET of soy beans and THEN in year 4 I'll get to plant a whole row of soy beans. Lesson learned: buy your soy bean seed by the 1/2 pound unless you're growing on an apartment balcony. Read more...
Castle "Stay the Hell Away From My Hops Mr. Rabbit and Deer"-enstein
We've had our first plants sprout from the ground -- 2 of the 5 varieties of hops planted from rhizomes on 15 MAR 10 (Nugget and Centennial) have already sprouted. They're in field 502, along the fence line, once mature, they will reach to a height of over 20' (only 6' in the first year). They were placed in this location to receive the brunt of the drying winds that sweep through.
In order to protect the hops from the wandering mouths of rabbits and deer I fortified them with a little fence of chicken wire with a prickly piece of evergreen on top, like their own lil protective forts.
Looking to plant spinach and some lettuce in field 501 tomorrow, this soil is ready to plant in right? RIGHT?!?!?
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