Wednesday, March 18, 2009

North Haven Lecture Notes

Attended the Organic Gardening Lecture at North Haven Gardens today. Here are the notes I came away with:

  • Check Squash at l ft for eggs under leaves scratch off to destroy
  • Mix herbs into tomatoes
  • Tomatoes no later than MArch 17
  • Add Compost in Fall
  • Add Manure straight into beds
  • Untreated cedar for bed construction
  • Terminate tomatoes - limit growth, undeterminate tomatoes  do not limit growth
  • Look for drawf varieties of cukes
  • Add Garden Innoculant for beans or peas
  • Start tomatoes in May for second spring
  • Feed every two weeks Organic fertilizer of liquid seaweed
  • Flat leaf spinach cleaner
  • Let broccoli bolt to attract beas if you have fruiting trees
  • Black eyed peas second crop in August
  • Polinate melons
  • Squash, cukes, and melons will cross polinate!

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