Hurray for the Volunteers!

by | Jun 2, 2013 | CobraHead, Gardening

Volunteer Salad Greens We’re getting lots of volunteer lettuces and other salad greens this year.  I’m transplanting some to the pea bed and elsewhere, but most we are just harvesting the whole plant where they are growing. I talked about letting salad greens bolt and go to seed in a post last September: http://blog.cobrahead.com/2012/09/10/simple-seed-saving/ In addition to some lettuce seed which I saved and scattered  throughout the garlic bed, a...

Potting Off to a Hoop Tunnel

by | May 2, 2012 | CobraHead, Gardening

There are normally three steps to growing vegetables that require indoor seeding.  First you plant the seeds in a growing medium into a flat or a small container.  Second, you transplant the sprouted seedlings after they have established themselves into a second, larger container.  This is called potting off and it gives the seedlings room to expand both their root system and their leaf growth.  Then, when the weather is right these transplanted and firmly...

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