| Title: | ** Gardening ** |
| Notice: | Welcome to Gardening |
| Moderator: | SHULA::CONCORDIA |
| Created: | Fri Feb 14 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2956 |
| Total number of notes: | 27284 |
I'm starting to look over my yard with an eye towards
garden preparations.
In the past, my garden has been a "yeah, why not, let's
make one" kind of plan. I buy what I can find in mid-may
and plant it.
This year, I know I'm going to have a vegetable garden.
Any advice on what I should do now before the actual
outdoor planting ?
I know I want green beans - should these be started from
seed now (indoors), or should I just wait until the
may planting ?
Other springtime advice (flower and shrub advice welcome also!)?
Karen
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| 2953.1 | Most vegetables get planted directly in the garden. | BASEX::EISENBRAUN | John Eisenbraun | Tue Apr 15 1997 12:56 | 21 |
> Any advice on what I should do now before the actual
> outdoor planting ?
It's always a good idea to work in new organic matter/compost. You
want to give enough time (couple weeks) between adding compost and
actual planting, though to give the organic matter time to break down.
> I know I want green beans - should these be started from
> seed now (indoors), or should I just wait until the
> may planting ?
Beans you can wait until May and plant outdoors. In general, you
plant things directly in the garden those things that will mature in
time for harvest before frost strikes or things that don't like to be
transplanted.
Generally, the only things I start indoors are tomatoes, peppers,
cauliflower and broccolli. (The cauliflower and brocolli are started
early because they like cool weather, so you want to harvest them in
June/July before it gets too hot.)
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