Bounty Greens Garden-- 8/15/19

[Shawn]

All are doing well and you had yourself a nice salad!

[clumsythumbs]

Once again, been absent for a few weeks!

I got a lot of harvests from these salads. Some pods are still going, but some have sort of terminated. I have been switching pods between this garden and the Ultra GAL garden that is also greens. I will post photos later this week.

Planted 3 pods of Little Gem (Park Seed) last week. 2 of the 3 pods sprouted, but are going slowly (haven't had to remove the dome yet). 

I chopped a bunch of the pods down, to terminate, but some are growing back. I have been too busy last week to harvest, so I will see where there are this weekend. 

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Day 74:

Some photos from last week (10/25).  As I mentioned, the GAL Salad garden and this Greens garden have sort of mixed and merged. I moved pods around based on size / light several times. Going to post photos in both threads.


2019-10-25_11-25-16 by Aaron Blasyak, on Flickr


Here you have the original Kale, Salad Bowl, one of the Little Gems, and Chard from the this Greens Garden, along with the Black Seeded Simpson (Black left), Parris Island (Back-L, second from corner), and Rouge D'Hiver (Back Right). 

The Salad Bowl (front right) completely grew back after cutting back to a nub. The Chard (unexpectedly) also grew some new leaves back. These are currently in the Ultra (which originally housed the my GAL Salad Garden). The Simpson, Parris Island, and Rouge D'Hiver are all original to that garden.

The Kale, Chard, Salad Bowl, Little Gem are part of this one. Sorry if that is confusing! 

Here is the Bounty (original location):

2019-10-28_10-57-12 by Aaron Blasyak, on Flickr

Front:
2nd round of Chard (L), Second Rounds of Little Gems (2 in the middle), and a Third (R) Little Gem that has not germinated.

Back:
Romaine (L), Non-germinated Parris Island, and 2 Arugulas which regrew from being chopped down. These are not growing much nor drinking much water. Nutes were added Friday. 

Been a busy few weeks, so sort of letting things run their course. There is currently one open spot (Back Left). Once things settle down some, I will probably plant a pod there and remove the two non-germinated pods. One of my lettuces, not sure what yet. Maybe spinach or arugula since I use those everyday, so can cut down on what I have to buy at store.

More updates soon! 

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While I have not officially terminated this garden, it is, in its original form, mostly gone and replaced. As several folks do with lettuce and herbs, rotating and having a constant go of it...I have replaced many of the pods.  In the Bounty, I planted 3 or 4 pods of the Salad Bowl (Park's Seeds). The current line up is:

Romaine (1)
Arugula (2) -- these are old and ready to go, but I don't know if I will replant. I am leaving in 3 or 4 weeks for another month or two, so not sure it is worth it.
Salad Bowl (4)-- newly planted, starting rise above the label
Little Gems (2)

Given I am leaving town and will have to terminate all gardens, figured just add on instead of starting a new garden all over.

I did, pretty much terminate my other lettuce garden (the Labor Day GAL) and plant with 7 Salad Bowl pods. I will post those photos here since it will be a short lived garden. Right now most have sprouted and are going above the label, but have not taken off the domes (which it's been 8 days, seems slow).