Spring Planting List 07

Planted and potted on as of 27 Aug 07

Most (except where stated) in individual containers, cut down milk/juice bottles, with no bases to enable easier and less disruptive planting.

See Food Gardening for Beginners Part 6 - Getting Your Seeds To Grow for more information on growing from seed.

Living in the Plastic Hot House:

• Black Zucchini x 10
• Lebanese Mini Cucumbers x 3
• Just Another Pumpkin x 5
• Nasturtiums x 7 containers of 2 ea
• Sunflowers mixed 17 containers
• Marigolds 36 Cell tray + punnet
• White Cosmos 26 Cell tray
• Basil Green and Purple 18 mixed punnets (for fete stall)
• plus 1 Cell tray (30) of each for us
• Black Russian Tomatoes x 27
• Pacesetter Tomatoes x 5
• Ida Gold Tomatoes x 1
• Goldfinger Zucchinis x 6
• Lemon Cucumbers x 5
• Rouge d'Etampes Pumpkin x 5

Aug 26th noticed some dampening off/fungus damage to 1 cucumber...mixed a cup of organic Chamomile tea and diluted it to spray everything in the hothouse!!

Black Zucchini, White Cosmos,
Evening Sun Sunflower and Sweet Basil

Just Another Pumpkin, Crackerjack Marigolds,
Lebanese Cucumbers and Alaska Gold/Scarlet Nasturtiums

Sunflowers - Giant Russian & 'Gringo',
Rouge d'Etampes Pumpkin, Purple Basil & Black Russian Tomatoes

Emerging but not quite ready for potting on:
Living in the old Hot House or in the Shade House;

• Buttercup Pumpkin
• Delicata Squash
• Anise Hyssop.
• Silverbeet
• Parsley
• Dill
• Bronze Fennel
• Phacelia tanacetifoli
• Nigella - Blue
• Nigella - Mixed

Seeds Sown 23rd Aug 07:
In the old Hot House;

• Rockmelon Hales
• Watermelon Golden Midget
• Watermelon Moon and Stars
• Bean Gourd
• Bottle Gourds
  

Bed 3 Straw Bale Garden

Planted in the Garden 21st Aug 07:
Bed 3 Straw Bale Garden;

• 9 Di Cicco Early Broccoli
• 2 Golden Acre Cabbage
• 12 Coriander
• Sugar Snap Peas
  

Emerging Potatoes

Planted in the Garden 1st Aug 07:
Into Bed 6;

• Mixed coloured Potatoes under plastic cloche

Oca in pot

Planted 26th Aug 07:
In Bed 2;

• Mixed coloured Potatoes

In Dog Pen Garden - in big pots;

• Oca - Oxalis tuberosa (See here)