New at this garden thing, only real experience was "child slave labor" for Dad as I grew up! Never knew what/why we were doing things, just did what we were told (who needs a rototiller when you have 4 kids? Funny, Dad has one now! )
Wife and I bought a house and been getting guidance from Dad in MA about when to plant in WY - not ideal.
House we bought has 2 gardens and a green house. So we are in experiment year.
Started tomato, cherry tomato, cukes and squash in the house in April. for some reason transplant to bigger pot killed most tomoto plants.
Around May 1 put things in the ground, as of 2 days ago I had:
In the green house:
- peas started as seed - doing pretty good
- beans started as seed - just came up
- leaf lettuce started as seed - almost big enough to eat now!
- seeded tomato and c tomato directly into ground, starting to come up
- seeded cukes into pot with tomato seeds, starting to come up
In the ground:
- cukes, all dies on a 40mph windy 36 hour period
- tomato and cherry tomato - transplanted 8, 6 died in the wind, last 2 died lsat night with a frost
- seeded peas and beans, starting to emerge
- seeded leaf lettuce - now about 1 inch tall - did fine in frost last night
- seeded romaine about 2 weeks ago, starting to come up
so I started to early, lesson learned!
What could I have covered things with last night? laying a tarp would have squised tomato. What do you cover them with?
