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Tomato Seedlings Planted

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Got this spring’s tomato seedlings in the ground 3/6. Trying five varieties this time around: Black Cherry, White Currant, Sungold, Early Girl (two plants) and Japanese Black Trifele. Hoping we get better results than last fall, where I netted maybe five cherry tomatoes from all six plants. Had some fungus problems or something that wiped out the plants. Fingers crossed!

Also planted some green bean seeds.

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Earthbox Squash Totals

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Here are the final counts for the Earthbox squash from the fall garden.

Date	Variety	Weight	Total
09/27/09	8 ball	217	217
10/03/09	8 ball	338	555
10/05/09	8 ball	255	810
10/08/09	8 ball	318	1128
10/08/09	8 ball	329	1457
10/15/09	8 ball	568	2025
10/18/09	8 ball	281	2306
10/23/09	8 ball	236	2542

09/27/09	Multipik	151	151
10/01/09	Multipik	228	379
10/01/09	Multipik	240	619
10/04/09	Multipik	157	776
10/07/09	Multipik	181	957
10/13/09	Multipik	194	1151
10/19/09	Multipik	175	1326
10/22/09	Multipik	125	1451
10/26/09	Multipik	171	1622

09/27/09	Raven	209	209
09/29/09	Raven	211	420
10/02/09	Raven	220	640
10/12/09	Raven	174	814
10/25/09	Raven	207	1021
10/30/09	Raven	300	1321

09/27/09	Zephyr	200	200
09/29/09	Zephyr	205	405
10/08/09	Zephyr	191	596
10/12/09	Zephyr	169	765
10/20/09	Zephyr	128	893
10/23/09	Zephyr	141	1034

Totals:

8-ball: 8 squash, total 5.6lb

Multipik: 9 squash, total 3.6lb

Raven: 6 squash, 2.9lb

Zephyr: 6 squash, 2.3lb

Total: 14.4lb

Would have gotten quite a bit more if the mystery mildew had not struck and killed off the squash. Will definitely try again next spring/fall.

Our favorites flavor-wise were 8-ball, then Zephyr, then Multipik, and Raven last.

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Earthbox Lettuce Day 43

Sunday, December 6th, 2009

Lettuce has reached the point of harvest. Have yet to clip any leaves and try it, but should be doing so soon. I have heard you can clip leaves here and there and it will “keep going”. I have never grown lettuce before so not sure.

Lettuce was directly-seeded into the Earthbox on 10/17; this picture was taken on 11/29, so day 43 after sowing the seeds. Varieties are Black Seeded Simpson, Lollo Rossa and Salad Bowl.

Earthbox Lettuce