March 17, 2009
Growth! These are the radishes planted on the side of the house. They’re our first seeds to sprout this year <I’m kinda worried about my garden peas :( >. You can even see their tiny red stems! This evening I planted two more rows of carrots and a long row of turnips. That makes two 6-foot rows and one 4-foot row of carrots. Carrots should be thinned to one plant every 2 inches. This means we should harvest about 8 dozen carrots! For turnips I couldn’t decide whether to grow a cultivar that produces more leaves (“turnip greens”) or to grow some that produce a larger root. So the guy at Travelers Rest Feed and Seed mixed some seed for both. When they come up there should be some plants that have a bunch of leaves and some plants that only have a few. The ones with few leaves will have larger roots come harvest time.

Growth! These are the radishes planted on the side of the house. They’re our first seeds to sprout this year <I’m kinda worried about my garden peas :( >. You can even see their tiny red stems!

This evening I planted two more rows of carrots and a long row of turnips. That makes two 6-foot rows and one 4-foot row of carrots. Carrots should be thinned to one plant every 2 inches. This means we should harvest about 8 dozen carrots!

For turnips I couldn’t decide whether to grow a cultivar that produces more leaves (“turnip greens”) or to grow some that produce a larger root. So the guy at Travelers Rest Feed and Seed mixed some seed for both. When they come up there should be some plants that have a bunch of leaves and some plants that only have a few. The ones with few leaves will have larger roots come harvest time.

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