After waiting three months, we have our first beefsteak type tomatoes of the summer and they’re beautiful!
That’s two Mr. Stripey and one Hillbilly, I think. These two plants grew so close/entangled that I can’t really tell which is which!…
Adventures in Square Foot Gardening
By lpilewski
After waiting three months, we have our first beefsteak type tomatoes of the summer and they’re beautiful!
That’s two Mr. Stripey and one Hillbilly, I think. These two plants grew so close/entangled that I can’t really tell which is which!…
By lpilewski
Peppers, that is. First red pepper harvested today. Week thirteen and cayennes are ripening! How about this amazing red?
This has been a good week for peppers overall – one yellow bell, another holy mole and several more cubanelles!…
By lpilewski
Well – not cherries exactly, more like sun gold cherry tomatoes! Almost two dozen of them, beautifully ripe and really sweet! We’re moving right along in week 12!
It was also time for cubanelle peppers. …
By lpilewski
Now we can plant! But first, we’ve got to decide what to include in the garden. I’d gone to Lowes and bought a bunch of seed packets several weeks ago and I brought those out to figure out the garden plan. Tomatoes and peppers would be purchased as plants to give them a fair head start. Here’s the plan (I even used fancy graph paper!):
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