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[Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>]

Hey Rob, I planted a lot of sunflower seeds in with my corn........... a tip 
from a companion planting guide..... "to fight earworm caterpillars, attract 
birds by planting sunflowers" with the corn.
 
I'm looking forward to eating the leftover sunflower seeds too !
 
I also planted sunflowers outside my south windows to look at, and pole beans 
on my east windows (for shade from the desert sun and food).
 
Planted a lot yesterday.... still more to go.
 
First attempt, and have killed a lot of seedlings by accident................ 
but still working it !
 
 
 
 

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--- On Sun, 4/19/09, Robert Walton <waltonrp AT gmail.com> wrote:

From: Robert Walton <waltonrp AT gmail.com>
Subject: [Homestead] Garden on the mind
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Sunday, April 19, 2009, 8:12 PM

Glad to see some posts. I'm sure everyone has been busy. I like that about
spring. Time to get shaking and get some work done. What I do in spring sets
the tone for the rest of the year.

There are lots of little sunflowers coming up everywhere from seed that the
birds dropped, I'm letting a few well placed ones grow.

I outlined the herb plot with Jerusalem Artichokes. I'm sure I'll
regret
that some day!

The chamomile reseeded itself. I lost the rosemary to cold. I see arugula
coming up very late. Also have some creasy salad coming up and some spinach
mustard. It might be a productive little plot. I also planted a nice little
spot of Alfalfa. I want it for tea.

I planted out my onions I grew from seed today. I planted some other starts
and sets I'd bought. Mental note to plant onion seed on New Years Day 2010.
I counted 180 Ailsa Craig plants. That's my heirloom. I hope it does well,
I'd like to save seed. I planted probably 100 Candy onions, I've
planted
that hybrid for 3 years and it always makes nice onions.

It's been so rainy here, I just had yesterday and today to get in the
garden. It's been on the cool side, hard frost last week, but I was
surprised at how warm the soil is. Those whippoorwills must know what they
are doing, they are back.

Rob - Va
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So do Royal Burgundy beans or other purple varieties..they are
tasty..yellow beans aren't?

Robert Walton wrote:
>> Tell me why I should plant and like wax beans.
>
> They are easier to pick. The yellow snaps (beans you say :>) stand out
> against the green leaves.
>
> I like them. Probably won't plant again, no-one wanted to eat them.
>
> Rob - Va


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