Kerry’s Garden

Week 5
Not much new going on. I ended up not harvesting last week and this was the result. I harvested just after taking this photo and got a large bowl full, probably about 1/2-3/4 lb in all. I took either leaves or entire plants where there there were more than [...]

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This was our first harvest taken last Thursday. It was enough for two large salads with dinner and a round of blt sandwiches for lunch. It was crisp, not even a hint of bitterness. I was very pleased.

This is what the plants looked like after harvest.

Today, 6 days later and it is [...]

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Week three of the

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I was just checking on the lettuce under lights in the basement and found some mosquito larvae in the water. It was no surprise, I had been expecting them. I dumped the existing water, filled the container with fresh and added abt 1tbs of 20-20-20 to the 6 gallons of water. [...]

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Two and a half weeks ago I seeded some lettuce in a float tray under a 4′ florescent light in my basement. About a week ago I added a second light with two Phillips ‘Natural Sunshine’ bulbs. The first light had one cool white and one warm white bulb. The hardware [...]

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One of the best gardening books I’ve read in a long time is “Garden Secrets” by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent and Diane E. Bilderback. Most garden books tell you about how to grow plants which this book does. It goes beyond that though by including information on how day length and temperature affect germination, [...]

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Float bed – May 4, 2004
The beginnings of the 2004 garden. The lettuce in the foreground was started in mid Februrary in the basement under lights. It didn’t do much growing till it was moved to the float tray. The rest of the veggies and flowers were started in late Feb. [...]

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