Green Beans 2013

The wood and string planters mentioned in last year's post have worked well but with one modification.  Along the bottom, instead of leaving the strings loose, I ran a string between the uprights, and tied each climbing string to the cross-string so they wouldn't blow around in the wind so much.

I think I planted 4 half-rows of flat-type beans, and one row of French style beans.

Planting so far 2013

On May 19th, at the plot planted some kale and some small rows of lettuce - lettuce could have gone in earlier.

On May 25th planted 8 kale plants started 4 weeks ago

On May 27th, planted:
- 5 cherokee tomatoes
- 7 sicilian tomatoes
- 9 San Marzano tomatoes

- 4 Jimmy Nardello peppers started 5 weeks ago

- 6 zucchini plants (two each) started 4 weeks ago

- 2 short rows of flat italian climbing beans


On May 29th in backyard:
- 5 cherokee
- 2 Brandywind
- 2 sicilian

2013 Start of Planting Season

Unfortunately missed the six week ahead deadline.  Started first seeds 5 weeks before the 24th.

Started 7 or 8 each of Sicilian, San Marzano and Brandywine/ 15 of Cherokee - one full William Dam tray =    38 plants

Also started a half tray (18) of peppers - 9 Northern, 3 Cubanel (only had 3 seeds), 2 Cayenne (may be too old seed) and 4 Jimmy Nardello.

According to my notes, I need to get the rest of the peppers in ASAP as there problems with the plants being too small last year.

Will start more tomatoes next weekend and again the weekend after.

Parsley seeds put in to soak 5 weeks before the 24th.

ADDENDUM-Turns out the 5 weeks was more than enough.  The weather was not suitable until about the 27th of May  - night time temperatures were too low.  5 weeks was even too long as the tomatoes got quite spindly.  4 weeks would have been long enough especially if fertilizing the young plants as I did this year.  
Note, though, this only applies to tomatoes, NOT peppers, and not parsley (which should have been started even 2 or 3 weeks earlier)