veg chart

f beans (yellows free saved from last year 20 cents green ones)
sown==23th April indoors green(burpee string less) and yellow ones == seeds came in about 6 days put under see thought tote outside (like mini greenhouse) 29th April

planted the yellow and green beans outside on 16th may hope they ok as i think last frost has gone day after had to cover up but weather ok now

harvest
21june first 5 beans will get more in about 7 days got handfull 26june (about 9 weeks to harvest)
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sown outdoors 6th june both sorts 90% germination doing ok

harvest
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sown outdoors 16th june
harvest


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r beans (4 dollars for seed and shipping)
(Hestia a dwarf r beans first time i tryed these )
sown ==28th April indoors== sown some more 9th of may indoors both in totes in garden waiting to plant out side

planted out 20th may in one row handful of cow manure under plants
plants not doing well only foot hight and not a lot of leaves but got flowers not really sure if they do anything
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corn (early golden bantum)(90 cents)
sown ==23th April indoors==seed came 4-6 6 days put under see thought tote outside (like mini greenhouse) 29th April

planted outside(first lot) 20th may put handful cow manure under plants planted rest of corn 24th may
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beetroot(Detroit reds) ( 40 cents 2pks)
sown==1 row outdoors 1st may
doing well (16th may)
thinned beets 23th may

harvest
4-10 of july nice size not plenty for 3-5 jars pickled beetrootsan same for nornal use about 9 weeks from sowing to harvest
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sown outdoors = 16th june

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carrots (Nantes cordless) (20 cents)
sown== 1 row outdoors 1st may
not come up yet dunno fi they do anythink(16th may) 24th may only about 15 carrots came up (well try and keep them see what happens)so i sowed another 20cent pk 24th may to see what happens
sown 30yj may as well to try outdoors
50% came up a few more that first ones :
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courgettes(black beauty) (20 cents)
sown== indoors 1st may
planted 22 may outdoors 3 of them

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cucumber
bought and planted 23may 3 of them (1.50dollars)
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lettuce (80 cents)
sown
1st/Th April indoors outside under totes
harvest
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lettuce (1.50 dollars )
bought 10-12 romaine lettuce to get early start and use the ones i sown for later crop about-4 inch high
transplanted out doors 8th may
harvest
got first one 24th june nice need 4-6 days to fill up but there nearly there started harvest 28june
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lettuce
sow in ground 25th may 3 sorts will keep 5-8 from each lot of lettuce( cos,iceberg and black seeded simspon) (might have killed them due to hot weather )
harvest
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sown indoors = 15th june in pots

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sown outdoors =

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onions sets (50 cents)
planted
25th April out doors
doing well (16th may)
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shallots (1 dollar)
planted
25th April outdoors =not coming good might not go well ??
did not work good only got 2 shallots (16th may)
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s onions (1.10 dollar)
28th April out doors 2 rows (9 foot)
just comming up only about 50% so far have to wait see if other come (16thmay)
about 65% came up not bad but could have been better)
harvest

sown 6june outdoors( grrrrrr dunno why these not comming up i think too dry but i still hope ) note (next year sow indoors first )

well they did come up and going ok

harvest

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potatoes(fingerling's (12)and (7) reds from shop) (3.50 dollars)
planted
harvest
25th April outdoors
planted
Yukon golds 1 row(12)1st may (1.20 dollars)
fingerlings and red ones popping head out of soil(16th may)
yukon ones head popping out 23th may
other doing well

(doing ok but needs watering alot and might not have time to do it )
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leeks (2.20 dollars)
planted outdoors 7th may
1 row normal ways with 5-6 inch holes then watered in
7that was left made 5 inch trench and planted then bottom this experiment this year dunno how they will come as only using fertilizer for feed no manure etc

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peas(little marvel) (1 dollar 5pks)
sown
28th April outdoors
doing ok a few misses but there was cheap seeds (16th may)
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radish (20 cents)
sown
1st/28th April outdoors
doing well (16th may)
harvest
started harvesting in them 30th may nice and juicy

sown 25th may outdoors

SOWN ( 20 CENT PK) EVERY 3 WEEKS)


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tomatoes (3 dollars)
sown
sungold 27th April indoors =might not get a lot of off them but hope at least 3 trusses could have bought some plants if i known they did them see what happens
sown 6 seeds 5 came up going well so far

planted outside one as a tester plant(20th may)about 2-3 inch high 23 may planted other 3 out taking chance with tem so little but i thnk they be ok
harvest
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tomatoes (3 dollars)
bought 4 Roma ones 28th April (45 inch high)
harvest

bought 4 golden girl ones (3-4 inch high)
harvest

both outside under totes from april 28th
keep eye on weather

planted the rest of tomato plants out 18th may golden and roma ones
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peppers (1.50 dollars)
2 chocolate ones and 2 purple ones
bought 4-5 inch) same as tomes under totes

planted both out 18th may
goign slow at the moment will keep eye on them (6june)
harvest
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red cabbage (1.50 )dollars
bought 4 plants 8th may transplanted them == 12th may
harvest
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water melons and cantaloupes (1.50 dollars)
bought 3 plants of cantaloupes and 5 plants of water melon(sugerbaby)just to try see what happens never grown these before so nice to try something new

planted out 22-23 may
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calabrese(broccal in usa)
man who gave me plot gave me 9 plants of calarese very small dunno if they will make it but put a row in 24th may
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turnips(40 cents)
sown out doors1st may=
harvest
got a few little ones out 23th jume
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sown out doors 16 june =

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HERBS

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marjoram (70 cent)
sown ==25th April indoors
about 15 seedlings so far small
thin to 5 plants slow growing they are

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basil (20 cents)
sown==20th April got 12 in single pots 1st may under totes
planted 4 outside 18th may see if they still do ok
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coriander (20cent)
sown==25th April
got 5 plants comming on ok
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parsley (70 cents)
sown 25th April
4-5 plants comming on a bit slow
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mint apple and spearmint (free from last year)
will have 4 buckets of mint this year i love mint had 20 varieties when in england
still cannot tell if got apple mint or not
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tarragon
bought plant 5th may(2.20 dollars)
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me

well i been a veg growing in UK for 30 years and now chance to start another one i was lucky that i got the land as this nice man put a sign in his garden saying free organic land space and i jumped at the chance to get some and the best thing its only 100 yards down the road from the apts we live how lucky was that :)i am in shelby twp Michigan and times are a bit difference from UK sowing and planting so this will be experiment as well-so here goes let the sowing and planting begin :)
the plot started at 15x15 but i extented it to about 25x25 feet now now 30x30ish i lost count how big it getting hehe now 46x26ft now




the ground is very good might drain quickly might have to water more
will buy all general fertilizer for the garden as might just be this year for the garden and not spending lot due to i dont know if i get or the nice man will let me have it next year and dont want to put alot into it for if that happens so touch wood just fertalizer and nice weather hope
cost so far
seeds plants about $30
compost and bags cow manure $8
fertilizer $6
about $45 all in with herbs as well not bad at all hope to get 3-4x out of it



totes as mini greenhouse with tomatoes and peppers and other veg use as for night time if low temps works well



French beans and corn seedlings



seedlings of herbs basil,marjoram, and parsley and cilantro



this is the plan for the veg plot this year




took totes to plot on 13th may as it gets more sun there and be a week or so before i will plant them in there final place now the main think now they say last frost 15th ish of may but i will keep check and hope next week plant them