Help with my vegetable garden and when or how to replant
 

In article .com,
undercover wrote:
How do you know when to reseed or replant a vegetable garden cause Im
growing it all but this is my first garden?

Depends upon where you are and what you're planting.

You may find more information in rec.gardens.edible (crossposted).

Being lazy, I finally got most of my garden (tomatos and peppers)
planted over the weekend. Also had some of the rainbow chard which
survived from last year with dinner yesterday. Now, if the local
rabbit will just leave stuff alone...


Gary

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Help with my vegetable garden and when or how to replant
 

undercover wrote:
How do you know when to reseed or replant a vegetable garden cause Im
growing it all but this is my first garden?

Since this is your first garden, take my advice and test your soil's pH
and then adjust it to what it should be, generally 6.5. That's the very
first thing you should do. Also make sure it has enough phosphorus,
compost, etc. before you plant anything. I didn't bother testing the pH
in my first garden and I didn't bother doing much soil preparation. Now
I wish I did. My soil is alkaline. The spinach was able to do well
anyway because it can tolerate alkaline soil, but the beets grew too
slowly and the bell peppers grew as slow as molasses in winter - which
is virtually not at all. Now I got a bunch of different things to add
to the soil. I'm especially using sulfur to lower the pH, and I got
manure for fertilizer. I'm also adding phosphorus and a couple other
things. When it's time to replant a patch, I put in some compost or
garden soil mix. Whenever you plant something new, you should read up
about it and find out its requirements for temperature, pH, water, sun,
nutrients, etc. Otherwise you could just be wasting your time unless
you get lucky.

As far as knowing when to replant, that's easy. Just replant according
to what season various vegetables do best in in your area and climate.
Some veggies do better on cool weather, some in warm weather.

Help with my vegetable garden and when or how to replant
 

On Wed, 31 May 2006 02:05:21 -0000, in misc.consumers.frugal-living
(Gary Heston), in glistered weave writ large for all to
see:

Being lazy, I finally got most of my garden (tomatos and peppers)
planted over the weekend. Also had some of the rainbow chard which
survived from last year with dinner yesterday. Now, if the local
rabbit will just leave stuff alone...

What kind of peppers? Bell or hot? I have planted hot peppers and wonder
about the local animals -- birds, rabbits and squirrels -- and if they will
take more than one bite of a habanero, jalapeno, or serrano.

FACE

Help with my vegetable garden and when or how to replant
 

In article ,
FACE wrote:
On Wed, 31 May 2006 02:05:21 -0000, in misc.consumers.frugal-living
(Gary Heston), in glistered weave writ large for all to
see:

Being lazy, I finally got most of my garden (tomatos and peppers)
planted over the weekend. Also had some of the rainbow chard which
survived from last year with dinner yesterday. Now, if the local
rabbit will just leave stuff alone...

What kind of peppers? Bell or hot? I have planted hot peppers and wonder
about the local animals -- birds, rabbits and squirrels -- and if they will
take more than one bite of a habanero, jalapeno, or serrano.

Six sweet bell, six cayenne, two habanero (at the end closest to the
street, partly as a theft deterent :-) ).

I don't think the animals (including my occasionl logn-eared visitor)
will touch the hot peppers, but I know crickets will eat the cayenes.
I've seen them doing it...

Guess they'd make interesting fish bait.


Gary

--
Gary Heston What do you call two SUVs colliding?
Poetic justice.
A worthwhile endeavour:
http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/c...jects/CTDSites