Transplanted most of the melons on Friday night, and started transplanting the peppers, basil, and tomatoes yesterday afternoon.
I was worried that the spaghetti squash (which was started by mistake with the summer squash back in April) might die, as the stems were looking a bit spindly, but as of today, they appear to be reviving.
It wasn’t until Frank accidentally threw some 10-yr old Spanish cherimoya seeds down the drain, that I actually remembered what they were called, and went online to see if I could fine some replacements.
www.tradewindsfruit.com was the site that I ended buying from, and in addition to two varieties of Cherimoya/Custard Apple that I bought, I also got some mini kiwis, dwarf papays, pawpaw, black Hungarian peppers, and brown (not golden) flax.
The lables on the pawpaw and cherimoya said that it can take up to 6 months for the seeds to germinate!
6 months!!!
Hopefully by following the directiosn on these pages, I’ll get by with simply a 1-month germination!
http://www.pawpaw.kysu.edu/pawpaw/ppg.htm
http://www.ehow.com/how_8463019_grow-cherimoya-seed.html
We planted the herb bed last night: 29 varieties – some culinary, some medicinal, and along with sowing the next month’s lettuce seeds, I also transplanted the lettuce that came up spontaneously from last year’s seeds which fell into the soil.
Cannot wait to start harvesting.
The winter squash which we planted two weekends ago is doing very well. A few inches tall, and just starting to get their 2nd leaves – so I should be able to to transplant those within the week.
One thing very apparent is that the Summer squash which was planted in May is pretty much as far along as those planted in April. So unless we have some heat-assisted mode of growing, I don’t see that we should plant any squash in April.
Our corn is knee-high.
Our beans have sent runners up to the top of the 3′ trellis.
The peas are a bit slower to take off, it seems, but they’re mostly around the 1-foot mark.
I have 108 potato sprouts in the greenhouse – most of the ones that I planted lst month (2/3s) haven’t broken the surface at all. We had a lot of heavy rain, so I’m thinking that the soil around the side (I’d dug down to allow the soil to be hilled as they grew) flodded back into the pits and stopped them from growing.
I needed to grow 144 potato plants… hopefully I can still make that happen.
Next weekend is going to be CRAZY.
We have around 600-650 of each peas and beans to plant …along with melons and peppers to make up for the ones that died out of the April planting.