Hopefully you have gotten your seeds and you are ready to plant. I usually plant my cool crop seeds the first part of May. Then about May 20th I plant my warm season plants and seeds. See my Seed List for 2013 seeds

Planting Seed times andersonsseedandgarden

These labels are not any type of order with the plants.

Planting in raised beds is such a plus because you can have such nice soil and can cover them easily if it freezes. My raised beds are 4 feet wide and 8 feet long and are made from Redwood and secured with rebar.

When planting Tomatoes take out of container and rub the Myke on the roots. Sprinkle about one tablespoon of slow release all purpose granule fertilizer in the planting hole. Water with a Root Stimulator and follow the direction on bottle/ container.

Tip: I like to remove the bottom 2 leaves of the tomato plant and make planting hole deep enough to come up the stem of the Tomato to the last removed set of leaves. Also check the roots and make sure they are not root bound, if they are break them up a little bit.

Stand plant up in hole cover with soil.

Here is a picture of a tomato plant. tomatoplant

Plant Pepper plants the same as Tomatoes, except you don’t remove any leaves. Plant all roots and if plants are root bound break up roots a little bit. (Looking at the the pictures of my plant roots you will see that these plant roots all just fine). Plant peppers in prepared hole fill with soil to the top of plant roots system and then, cover top roots with a light layer of soil to make Peppers more stable in the soil, because the roots still need to breathe, so make sure it’s a light application of soil.

The PVC pipes you see in the picture I made so I can put Freeze Cloth/Sun Cloth on the PVC Structure to keep newly planted plants from getting sunburned and plants will still have space to grow.

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Happy Gardening.

Lindy

This is my full grown garden 2012. We are excited to see what this year’s garden will bring. I hope you will find this helpful in planting this year.

Jade bush beans, Soybeans, Little Marvel Peas, Blue Lake Bush Beans, Lincoln Peas, Sweetness Carrots

Spirit Pumpkin is the orange label. The Butter-crunch Lettuce is really Butternut Squash.

Potatoes are planted most readily from seed potatoes that are untreated with grow inhibitors.

I plant most of the potatoes whole if they are small. Cut large potatoes into sections of three eyes in each. I always have some small potatoes from the year before and buy new ones too. Just remember not to plant in the same spot in your garden as you did the year before.

Since I prepared my beds with amendments last fall I just made rows in my beds and planted the seeds 1 1/2 to 2 inches apart. ( I like to plant seeds close, it helps to support plants as they grow bigger.)I just use plastic markers and with a waterproof sharpie. I write the names of the seeds planted.

Love Gardening.

Lindy