Bean Cages and Lettuce Boxes
When I posted last night, I said I’d build a Bean Cage in the next few days, but I had to do it today. It’s been a while since I grew bush beans, and I forgot how fast they grow. When I checked on them today, the first sprouts had already grown as tall as the little green cages. My cage isn’t pretty, but I do hope it works.
Here are a couple pics of my pitiful-looking bean cage. Here’s hoping it works better than it looks.
I’ve mentioned before that I was going to try growing lettuce in the house, under lights, since it’s already too hot to plant it outside. I transplanted the lettuce babies into the window box yesterday and put them under lights. I did a bit of digging on Gardenweb, and found this post, which was very helpful. Now I just have to remember to cover the babies every night. I set the alarm on my phone to remind me. Only filled up part of the box, and planted some seeds in another part, to start my succession crop. Left some room for more seeds in a few weeks. If it works out, I hope to have enough lettuce to keep me going all summer. Wish me luck! I’ll let you know how it goes, eventually.
Oh yea, just remembered. I’ve never had much luck sprouting chives, or any other allium seed, but I finally did it. I used the damp-paper-towel-in-the-baggie method, and put the baggie in the butter compartment of my fridge for about 2 wks. Then I took them out, and sowed them in a plastic baked goods container from the grocery store. Kept the lid closed, but didn’t put the container on the rope lights, just sat it on the shelf. Lo and behold, in a few days, much to my amazement, I actually had chive seedlings! Cool, huh?
Not much else today. Going to start some flower seeds for my containers, now that most of the veggies are done, for now. Just think, I get to do this all over again, along about the end of June, for my fall garden.
Would you tell me where did you download your site template ?
The links are on the bottom of the page, but I just used them as bases. The art is my own, and I made alot of changes. I keep a copy of my blog on my local machine to test new stuff.
Sorry I can’t be of more help.