Gardening

Early September Gardening

It's been a sprouting month for the garden, with lots of new space and new seedlings!

Anne Trueblood

Anne Trueblood

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Early September Gardening

It's been a sprouting month for the garden, with lots of new space and new seedlings!

Our potted plant collection just after sowing.
Three cucumber sprouts and several smaller lettuce sprouts
Cucumber sprout in the pot, potatoes on the left (with a lettuce sprout), shishito on the right.
Potato plants in the sunlight
Meanwhile our hydroponics experiment is going great!
Radishes are plumping up for harvest time.
We finally dug up the potatoes, since the shallow dish isn't suitable for them.
Combing through the soil for potato spuds.
Our harvest haul--tiny taters!

We didn't actually know how best to grow potatoes before we started, we just knew that we needed to mound them. As a result, we put them in the shallow pan that was nowhere near deep enough.
You're supposed to keep burying the stalk of the potato plant as it grows taller, so that over time the soil gets deeper and deeper and there's more space to sprout potatoes. Next time!

Cleaning out and refilling a hydroponic bottle with well-developed cucumber roots.
Lettuces!

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