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Any thoughts on these seed starting Ideas?
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Posted by heather38 6a E,Coast (My Page) on Mon, Feb 8, 10 at 20:03
I have just spent a pleasant 3 hours watching a Gardening program from the UK made in 2007, which if I am truthful, was more entertainment than gardening, but the presenter a well known Flower Gardener was Brilliantly hapless and the Family she was meant to be inspiring out preformed her efforts with ease.
The Questions I have are she started Carrots indoors, to plant out later, can you do that? I would guess as we didn't see her put them out you can't? anybody tried it?
She also started her peas and beans indoors, which I will tell you I also did last year and with success but they take up to much room as you need to do them individually, but she used a length of plastic guttering, cut to the length of the bed she was going to transplant in, come transplantation time, she dug a trench the width and length of the pipe and sort of slide the peas and soil into the trench, she did make a pig ear of it at the start, but once she perfected the art, it seemed to go smoothly, but again no reference to the peas again, so what do you think? could this work? as this would really help me space and time wise.
Potatoes in Bins, planting and spacing I got, but how long should you keep earthing up? 1 foot, 2 foot? just keep going until you reach the top?
Thanks in advance,
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RE: Any thoughts on these seed starting Ideas?
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Hi Heather,
As far as the potatoes:
I did get some potatoes(red) growing up the vine as I continued to "hill" them, but there is no real value in doing so...you don't get "lots and lots" ,but only a few and those are small... the way I will do it from now on is plant them in a shallow trench,when they get to be 1' tall,hill them up 9" or so (covering the bottom leaves isn't going to cause any problems,when they have reached another foot,do the same thing one more time,at this point you will have approx. 2' of soil covering your "seeds",that will be plenty.... |
RE: Any thoughts on these seed starting Ideas?
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| Why would anyone make so much unneccessary work for themselves as to start peas, beans, and, of all things, carrots inside to transplant?! All are exceedingly easy to direct sow, and will do better that way. |
RE: Any thoughts on these seed starting Ideas?
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| Agree with laceyvail. If the climate was agreeable, I would direct seed EVERYTHING. I can't do that, but I do direct seed everything that I can, and that starts with peas. If my wife caught me taking a length of gutter to the cold frame, and I told her I was "hardening off the peas", she would cuff me up the side of the head...and rightfully so. |
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