Seeds in the starter Tray
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My Front Yard Garden | Posted:
Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:16 pm
My daughter and I started some other seeds in the starter tray yesterday. We started Burban and California wonder Bell Peppers, some Sweet Banana peppers, Marigolds and some Tyme.
We also have some spinach that I have to get into the garden yet. That spinach is Bloomsdale longstanding and some Strawberry Spinach.
You should see what I did to plan out my planting schedule. I put together an excel spreadsheet with columns for Crop, Sow timeline = +/- last frost, Days to harvest, approx plant date, approx harvest, actual plant date and expected harvest date. Our average last frost here is April 1, so that means for my earliest planting of items with a suggested plant date of six to eight weeks before last frost (notated in excel as "6-8 weeks -" ) would be 2/4 - 2/18. So with my Peas that went in the other day, with days to harvest of 60 & 68 days, I can calculate expected harvest to be April 22 & April 30.
The main reason for creating the spreadsheet was to figure out my planting succession plan, or basically what's there now and what's going there later. What I found out was that most of what I was planning would not work out. When I saw all of the sow dates in a row I realized that most of my veggies, spring garden (17 of 20), should be planted prior to last frost. The rest of my veggies, summer garden, should be planted about 2 weeks after last frost. There is a big overlap even with the earliest things like the snow peas. So now I am working on what will be planted where and most likely reducing the number of plants of each variety to squeeze in all I want to grow.
Well that enough for now.
Seeya,
Uncle Jabba
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