Small Garden

I hope so, I was actually thinking of another section of pole beans but we decided on acorn squash.

If this years garden goes well, we plan on making a bigger garden down near the pole beans, this will allow us to have most of the plants in one area.

We will plan it out during the winter so we can save some running around getting some plants, I also want to start some of our own plants next year.

 

Mama Bear aka Grandma had a little helper in her flower garden today.

 

Today was spent cleaning in the garage (mostly my bench area) then filing some paperwork so we didn't get the acorn squash in yet so that will be done Tuesday & Wednesday.

With the nice warm weather on Saturday and all the rain we received yesterday, all the bean sprouts are popping up through the dirt.

 

We decided to put in another four feet wide by eight feet high section of pole beans tomorrow but this time we'll do green pole beans.

Earlier this week we planted six acorn squash, after tomorrow it will be time for that big downed Sugar Maple.

 

We have a frost advisory at the moment so my question would be, if I cover our beans and acorn squash with landscaping fabric will that be enough?

They're saying the temps could be between 30-34, the tomatoes and the pepper plants will come inside because they're in containers.

I have everything covered that we can't move inside, we used some clean old linen.

 

Just started to soak the pole beans being planted tomorrow in water with hydrogen peroxide (3%) some say they will sprout in 24-36 hours, we'll see.

I'm also using it to mist some tomato plants that don't look like they should, I'm hoping with better weather things will get better.

http://www.using-hydrogen-peroxide.com/gardening-with-hydrogen-peroxide.html

 

The bush green beans I planted came up in 3 days.......w/o anything but a little watering.
I was shocked.

 

The temp dropped to 38 so that was good, I uncovered the beans (planted on 5-24-15) and the acorn squash this morning then I planted the green pole beans by 8:47 a.m., just a few pics.

I rinsed the bean seeds off about 10 times before planting, we'll see if some of the stuff I read works. They were saying some sprouted in 24 - 48 hours after being soaked in this solution.

 

Very cool,......zap and the beanstalks.
I love gb, and they're real easy to grow....if you can keep the killer wabbits away from 'em. Do gooder stuff for the soil too.
Never grown the pole beans, so I'm curious how that works out. Going vertical saves ground space. Got me thinkin' again......could be trouble.

 

I decided to grow the green pole beans after asking my father for the recipe that my grandmother used for potatoes and beans, my father said she used green beans not yellow.

I don't think we've seen a rabbit in this area in a long time, I never should've said that.

papadave , I'm also using that mixture of water and the hydrogen peroxide to mist the leaves of the plants, they say it's good for the plants and the bugs hate it.

 

We've got plenty of rabbits...you're welcome to as many as you want.
I'm sure the remainder will make more.
Do the pole beans taste different than the bush beans? Don't know if I've ever had 'em.

 

I've always had pole beans so I'm not sure.

 

The difference I see from soaking the beans before planting is more of them sprout at the same time.

I had 5-7 starting to show on the third day in the morning, most of them are up today, I'll get a pic tomorrow.

The squash are doing well and we have some hot peppers, small but they're coming.

 

Just a few pics of what's going on in the garden, the acorn squash, both sets of pole beans and the hot peppers are doing good.

It would be nice if we could get a full week of sun with some rain.

The second set of pole beans are the ones we soaked before planting in water and Hydrogen Peroxide. (3 percent) This set is Kentucky Wonder Brown.

 

Doin' good zap. Nice to see.

 

We can't wait, it's been about 14 years since we had any type of a garden.

 

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