[Market-farming] agribon 15

Pat Meadows pat at meadows.pair.com
Thu May 8 12:32:43 EDT 2008


On Wed, 7 May 2008 16:01:48 -0400, you wrote:

> 
>
>I have another question about agribon. 
>
>Can I plant cucumber seeds and squash seeds in the ground, then when they
>germinate, then cover them up,. Or do I need to cover the seeds as soon as I
>plant them? 
>

There's (possibly, depending on how many you grow) a third alternative:  I
start both cukes and squash in cellpacks, indoors or on our deck, and then
transplant them.

This would be over-laborious if you grow hundreds of them, obviously.  But
it's good if you don't grow too many; they get a really good start that
way.

Then when I do transplant them out, I put hoops with floating row cover
over them until they are somewhat larger - until they are large enough not
to mind flea beetles.  

I don't like to put floating row cover *without* hoops on anything:  when I
tried it several times, mold grew under the row cover and (I think) killed
the plants.  Something killed them at any rate; and there was mold visible.

Pat
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