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To: Arrowhead1952

We love green beans too. I’ve planted 5/6 beans in my Keyhole garden, I know where one is, ‘cause I have a little
tower over it, I think 2 are in the outer corner of the V
in the garden, to protect the smaller plants when the sun
gets hot. Where the others are???????????, who knows. T
radishes, I transplanted didn’t even know they had been moved, the red onions are doing very well.
This past Saturday, we had a great Community Garden Day. Everyone of the “raised” gardens were taken and planted. We
served hot dogs at lunch with water and soda. Now we’re
in the process of making more raised gardens. I’m going
to take a bunch of pictures then follow the season with more
pictures until whenever. That was the best time. I had set
aside 3 gardens, shaped in a H, but someone wanted all 3 for
their plants. So now all I have is a syrup pot and my Keyhole garden. I’m thinking of taking some of the empty
syrup pots.
I just read to grow sweet potatoes, one should cut a piece and when it grows some “stems”, carefully remove the stems
and plant them in the soil. Does that sound right? My
potatoes rotted. GRRR. I’m going to plant some fingerlings and see what happens. My squash is doing what
squash plants are supposed to do.
Tomorrow I’m going to fill my home raised garden with the
fingerlings, squash, tomatoes, cucumbers, and in a home
syrup pot, I’m going to put in my canteloupes. My Kandy Korn is beginning to show. I planted some hybrid sweet
corn, especially treated to grow in pots. I guess the seeds
are still deciding if they want to grow, ‘cause nothing is
going on in that pot.


228 posted on 03/31/2014 3:36:06 PM PDT by tillacum
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To: tillacum
I’m thinking of taking some of the empty syrup pots. I just read to grow sweet potatoes, one should cut a piece and when it grows some “stems”, carefully remove the stems and plant them in the soil. Does that sound right?

Yes. We used to take a few sweet potatoes from the previous year and put them in a dark area. They would grow shoots and we would take them and plant them on a terrace. Get ready for long vines.

I use molasses tubs that farmers have for their cows. Drill a few holes in the bottom for drainage. I have a nice crop of carrots in one now.

247 posted on 03/31/2014 9:01:33 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
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