Second Planting

June 13, 2011

The weather has finally at least cooperated enough to start planting summer crops. So last Thursday and Saturday I double dug the rest of bed#2 and the rest of bed#3.  Figure 100 sq feet total.  It wore me out I can tell you!

Michelle and I also visited Naomi's  in Sellwood and bought about $70 worth of starts. The bill was actuall $90 but that included another 3 cubic feet of compost,  a 5 lb bag of sweet lime and a 50 lb bad of alfalfa meal.

Planted the following on Saturday:

• spread 1 gram of Sweet Nantes Carrot seed
• 10-21 days to grmination
• 81%yield
• 6 pack of Organic Lucious Sweet Corn (6")
• 75 days
• Bicolor
• Hybrid se+ type
• 7-8" ears
• 6 pack of Red Selection Celery (4")
• 100 days
• stronger, more distinct flavor than regular celery
• 6 pack of Maxibel French Filet Beans (6")
• 35 days
• slender 7" long stringless pods
• high yields - pick frequently
• 2 Black Beauty Zucchini (3")
• The standard summer squash, introduced to U.S. markets in the 1920s. Compact everbearing bush plants are loaded with glossy green-black fruits with firm white flesh. Best eaten when under 8" long. Excellent variety for freezing. 1957 All America Selections. 45-65 days.
• 1 Butternut Squash (4")
• 1 Table Quenn Acorn Squash (4")
• 2 San Morano Tomato plants (6")
• 2 Roma Tomato plants (6")
• 1 Sun Gold Cherry Tomato plant (6")
• 1 Yellow Pear Heirloom Tomato (6")
• 1 Coriandum Sativum Cilantro 
• planted in pot
• 2 Genovese Sweet Basil
• planted in pot
• 1 Amethyst Impaired Basil
• 16"
• planted in pot
• 1 Fernleaf Dill 
• planted in pot

10 foot run of Raspberries in the back. My compost pile to the left.
Front left is the corn. Middle are Maxibel Beans. You can't even see
the zucchini between the beans and corn! Bean seeds to the right
of the Maxibel beans (not germinated yet). Celery to the right.

Tomatoes. I dug a trench, threw in a handful of Lime and  planted them sideways.
The idea is that they will develop stronger root systems this way.

4 Boysenberries.  Those are Valencia Onions in the bed.
Front left, that leafy stuff, is Purple Peacock Broccoli

Valencia Onions. Red Cippolinni Onions. Purple Peacock Broccoli.
Green leafy stuff is Snowball Cauliflower. Back left are Schwiezer
Riesen Heirloom Snow Peas.

Caribe potatoes (front). Yukon Gold potatoes (back)

Lucious Corn.  Looks kinda pitiful but I think will be OK.