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instead of planting in old chinese food containgers .....

Posted by krzjaz11703 6b or 7 LI NY (My Page) on
Tue, Mar 14, 06 at 19:55

I am trying something different, planting the seeds directly and then protecting the x!@#% out of them. What do you think..... Won't work or may work or bad idea? I'm back after a long time away.
I just started my beds.
Asparagus bed 3x9 ft is peaking through, all seems ok.
I planted bed one with carrots 1" x 2" and have beef stk. seeds planted covered with a plastic lid. I thought I would try this instead of planting them in a container with a lid and slits, over the container is a mini green house. Good experiment or bad idea?
the rest of bed two is cucumber, I planted the seeds then covered it with a tarp for now, my husband is building a green house around the bed out of 3/4" pvc frame and 6 mil clear tarp fitted to the green house. Bed 3 is 3 sisters deal, squash, corn, peas. Bed 4 is 1 row onion sets, 1 watermelon hill, 3 corn rows, and string beans to climb the corn. I covered each of those beds with a black weed blocker tarp that I will take off after this last cold snap and then pvc tarp green house low to the ground kind of like a fancy row cover.


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RE: instead of planting in old chinese food containgers .....

I'm trying a slighly different approach. I sow in plastic flats. I'm doing a lot of prairie perennials this year and instead of the individual transparent lids I'm going to construct simple coldframes over rows of flats. Let me know how your approach works.


 
 

 

 


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