This year will be our biggest garden yet. We started with tilling our garden in the fall and planting winter rye as a winter cover crop. The point of that was to crowd out the spring weeds and create a good biomass to mulch the garden. While it didn't really work as a mulch, it did a great job of preventing weeds. In the third week of May, we tilled it in and started getting the plants we were growing inside, ready for the outdoors.
But I'm getting a little ahead. Let me go back to our seed starting. We started our first seeds in February. We did the onions first, then the peppers, then the tomatoes.
Our seeds with the red grow light.
Here are our seedlings at the begining of April. In the picture we are growing onion, tomato, pepper, artichoke, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, brocolli, cabbage and miscellaneous flowers.
At this point we needed multiple lights. We have one red and three blue lights. The sprouts loved the blue lights. The sprouts that were under the red light turned towards the blue when they were big enough.
Tomatoes in April!
Onions in April...
These are the tomatoes right before they went into the ground Memorial Day weekend.
My sunflowers!
Cosmos flowers...
Purple cabbage...
Brussel sprouts...
Tennessee Runner Peanuts
The tomatoes 2 weeks after they were planted.
To help cut down on weeds. We are saving the grass clippings and putting them between the rows. Hopefully it will cut down on the weeds enough to make a difference.
We will post again soon on the growth!
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