Sunday, March 20, 2011

Grow Veg attacks

I have my garden plan at www.growveg.com.  I love the ease of design and all the info that comes with it.  One of the benefits is that you receive an email telling you when it is time to start sowing indoors or outdoors your planned seeds based on your area's frost data.  Well yesterday I received this email....


Plants you can sow under cover or indoors in the next two weeks:
Broccoli: Calabrese Green Sprouting Broc 
Broccoli: Romanesca Italia Broccoli 
Chives 
Cilantro: Slo-bolt Cilantro 
Cress: Wrinkled crinkled cress 
Mache: Mache Verte D'Etampes 
Peas: Golden Sweet 
Peas: Sugar Ann 
Pepper: Bulgarian Ratund 
Pepper: Chinese Five Color Pepper 
Pepper: Corbaci 
Pepper: Golden Cal Wonder 
Pepper: Jimmy Nardello Italian 
Pepper: Lipstick 
Pepper: Melrose 
Pepper: Ozark Giant 
Pepper: Patio Red Marconi 
Pepper: Pepper Purple Beauty 
Pepper: Pepper Red Belgian 
Pepper: Pepper Sweet Red Stuffing 
Pepper: Tequila Sunrise 
Tomato: Buckbee's New 50 Day 
Tomato: Chadwick Cherry 
Tomato: Delicious 
Tomato: EGG red tomato 
Tomato: Fox Cherry 
Tomato: Hazelfield Farm 
Tomato: Illini Star 
Tomato: Jujube Cherry 
Tomato: Lollipop Tomato 
Tomato: Morning Sun 
Tomato: Mule Team 
Tomato: Stupice 
Tomato: Thessaloniki 
Tomato: Tomato Cour di Bue 
Tomato: Tomato Egg Yolk 
Tomato: Tomato Orange Banana 

Plants you can sow outdoors or plant out over the next two weeks:
Arugula 
Broccoli: Calabrese Green Sprouting Broc 
Broccoli: Romanesca Italia Broccoli 
Cabbage (Spring): Early Jersey Wake* 
Carrot: Berlicum 2 
Carrot: Cosmic Purple 
Carrot: Jaune Obtuse Du Doubs 
Cauliflower: purple of siciliy cauliflower* 
Endive 
Endive: De Meaux 
Lettuce (Leaf): Dark Lollo Rossa 
Lettuce (Leaf): Devil's Ears 
Lettuce (Leaf): Little Gem 
Lettuce (Leaf): Merveille des Quatre Saisons 
Lettuce (Leaf): Sanquine Ameliore 
Mache: Mache Verte D'Etampes 
Peas: Golden Sweet 
Peas: Sugar Ann 
Spinach: Bloomsdale Long Standing 
Spinach: Merlo Nero 



Holy crap!  How in the world am I going to get all this done in two weeks?  I don't have enough lights or space or attention span.  After a few deep breaths I took stock and realized that I already started all the brassicas. The brassicas are ready for hardening off in the cold frame within the week. The lettuces, mache, endive, arugula, cress will all fit in two 72 in flats.  The carrots, spinach, and peas will be direct seeded in April.  I'll start the peppers this week and in two weeks start the tomatoes.  All but the peppers and tomatoes and basil will be outside or in the cold frame by April.  So indoors taking up all of my growing stand will be light and heat loving peppers and tomatoes.  


I think I can handle this...

1 comment:

  1. You can do it!! Grow the peppers and the broccoli first :) I'm a farmer, but I would not have known that you could start planting all of those outdoor plants yet, thats pretty cool.

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