Spring Planning...
Feb. 20th, 2009 06:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdehnersFeel like Santa, making lists and Checking twice(at least;>) for planting the SPring beds. I've been trying to break the bottleneck of our Hot Humid Summers which cause so many Traditonal European veggies to languish or die off during by planting analogues from (sub)tropical regions. So this yr we'll be testing Mokwa(a Summer Squash analogue from China), Long Beans(from Thailand)and Culantro from Vietnam(a Cilantro analogue). Just for "kicks" I'm also testing A Japanese Bitter melon, a small Wax Gourd(small being relative at 6 lbs;>)and a Baltic Melon.
Sunday, baring Freezing weather the Bananas get planted out. Hopefully I get at least two kinds this Fall/Winter. Later today I go through my Sweet Potatoes in the greenhouse to salvage what the Possums left me fro starts. Unfortunately, we got zip last yr because the only Preservation group that grows Sweets is also a Northern company and they didn't start the starts until two months after our local farmers planted theirs. I noted surviving leaves on the Asian Purple Sweets(not the aclaimed Okinawan, though I'm hopeful for starts from a Homestead listmate...)but nothing in the Japanese. Hopefully, the Possums left me a tuber of two.
Yesterday I repotted the Yuca/Tapioca/Manioc starts, all of which really didn't like even the more temperate condidtions of the greenhouse. Hopefully(note I'm using the term a lot;>)they'll spring back as soon as weather gets warmer. The Possums haven't weaked havok on the replanted Malanga bed as they did last yr so my choice of covering it with brair rose prunings kept their grubby paws off my tubers!
The Citrus in the greenhouse are all leafing out. We have to get steady above 38F nights soon so I can drag them out before the buds begin to swell. If they form and then you move them, they drop off and your yr's crop is lost...
Truth,
Pat
Clever isn’t the same as Sensible.
Sunday, baring Freezing weather the Bananas get planted out. Hopefully I get at least two kinds this Fall/Winter. Later today I go through my Sweet Potatoes in the greenhouse to salvage what the Possums left me fro starts. Unfortunately, we got zip last yr because the only Preservation group that grows Sweets is also a Northern company and they didn't start the starts until two months after our local farmers planted theirs. I noted surviving leaves on the Asian Purple Sweets(not the aclaimed Okinawan, though I'm hopeful for starts from a Homestead listmate...)but nothing in the Japanese. Hopefully, the Possums left me a tuber of two.
Yesterday I repotted the Yuca/Tapioca/Manioc starts, all of which really didn't like even the more temperate condidtions of the greenhouse. Hopefully(note I'm using the term a lot;>)they'll spring back as soon as weather gets warmer. The Possums haven't weaked havok on the replanted Malanga bed as they did last yr so my choice of covering it with brair rose prunings kept their grubby paws off my tubers!
The Citrus in the greenhouse are all leafing out. We have to get steady above 38F nights soon so I can drag them out before the buds begin to swell. If they form and then you move them, they drop off and your yr's crop is lost...
Truth,
Pat
Clever isn’t the same as Sensible.
