Gardening

Vegetable Garden 2015

~ lindy

 

 


Tomatoes:

Mr. Stripey, yellow with red stripes

Pink Girl and Pink Lady (my favorite)

Roma

Sun Sugar, small yellow tomato

Bottom right:  Acorn Squash

Bottom left: Rambo Pumpkin

Blue Lake Bush Beans/green beans

The White Powder you see is called Kill A Bug II to kill the grasshoppers!
  Jade green beans

Edamame Beans, soybeans
  Black Beans
  Cinderella Pumpkin
  Big Max Pumpkin  Fancy Crookneck Squash
  Lumina Pumpkin  Spacemiser Zuchinni

Butterbush Squash   Spaghetti Squash
  Banana Squash  Red Belle Radish and Early Pie Pumpins
  Romaine Lettuce  Dwarf Blue Curled Kale
 Detroit Beets
  Little Marvel Peas-Lincoln Peas-
  Long White Bunching Onions  Great Lakes Lettuce
  Correnta Spinach  Buttercrunch Lettuce
 Pioneer Pickling Cucumbers

 

Spacemaster Cucumbers
 Rumbo Pumpkin
 Acorn Squash


    Crimson Red Rhubarb
    Strawberries-ever-bearing and early June bearing
 Ambrosia Corn- Red Pontiac Potatoes-Yukon Gold Potatoes-Russet Potatoes

Peas:  Early Frost, Little Marvel and Laxton Progress, Lincoln and Victory Freezer

Enjoy!

Lindy

Seed Planting 2015

~ lindy

 

 

Start a garden today to have a great harvest in the fall and food to store for winter.  Below is a selection of the seeds we grow in zone 4.  Also see our Gardening section  for more gardening tips and planting.

Seed list for Planting 2015

*2 pounds Pontiac Potatoes (1 pound potatoes will plant about 10 feet in garden)
*3 pounds Yukon Gold Potatoes
*Dulce Grande Onions, bunch starts (last 3-6 months in cold storage, dig up in the fall)
*Red Zeppelin Onions, bunch starts (last about 4-5 months in storage, dig up in the fall
*Red Shallots, 7 bulb starts
*Long White Bunching onions, 1/16 ounce
*Detroit Dark Red Beets, 1/8 ounce
*Blue Lake Bush Beans, 1/4 pound
*Slenderette Bean, 1/4 pound
*Jade Bush Beans, 1/4 pound
*Ambrosia Cantaloupe, 1/64 ounce
*Nantes Coreless Carrots, 1/8 ounce
*Little Finger Carrots, 1/8 ounce
*Ambrosia Corn, 1/4 pound
*Spacemaster Cucumber, 1/32 ounce
*Pioneer Pickling Cucumber, 1/16 ounce
*Black Bush Dry Bean, 1/4 pound
*Curled Herb Parsley, 1/64 ounce
*Flat Italian Herb Parsley, 1/64 ounce
*Buttercrunch Lettuce, 1/32 ounce
*Dwarf Blue Curled Kale, 1/16 ounce
*Great Lakes Lettuce, 1/32 ounce
*Outback Romaine Lettuce, 1/32 ounce
*Correnta Spinach, 1/8 ounce
*Little Marvel Pea, 1/4 pound
*Lincoln Pea, 1/4 pound
*Early Frost Pea, 1/4 pound
*Cherry Belle Radish, 1/8 ounce
*Rumbo Pumpkin
*Acorn Squash, 1/16 ounce
*Banana Squash
*Burpee Butterbush Butternut Squash, 1/16 ounce
*Victory Freezer Pea, 1/4 pound
*Cinderella Pumpkin, 1/16 ounce
*Big Max Pumpkin, 1/16 ounce
*Early Sugar Pie Pumpkin, 1/16 ounce
*Lumina Pumpkin, 1/32 ounce
*Fancycrook Crookneck Squash, 1/16 ounce
*Spacemiser Zucchini Squash, 1/16 ounce
*Spaghetti Squash, 1/16 ounce
*Pink Girl Tomato, 100 mg
*Roma Tomato, 100 mg
We also planted 6 bare-root  Heritage Raspberries and 25 Honeoye June Bearing Strawberry starts bare-root.  I’ve had June bearing strawberries for about 8 years and they were getting tired in the spot I planted them so I’m adding soil amendments:  Humate, Peat Moss, Soil Building Compost and planting new bare-root starts.
 

 

Enjoy Gardening!

 

Lindy