Discussion on garden

[grace le maitre]

There's a variety pack of lettuce that might be nice. (Amish Deer
Tongue, Australian Yellowleaf, Bronze Arrowhead, Forellenschuss, Lollo
Rossa, Pablo, Red Velvet and Reine des Glaces). Red, green, and in
between. They range from quick growing to slow bolting with an
assortment of flavors, growing patterns, etc; we could have a good
supply (and variety) all summer long. And the mixed seed pack is the
same price as buying them individually.

http://www.seedsavers.org/Details.aspx?itemNo=1024


Also, arugula...super quick to grow. And fun to say...Ah rooo gooo
laaahh.

italian and hardy: http://www.seedsavers.org/Details.aspx?itemNo=603
-or-
organic and quicker: http://www.seedsavers.org/Details.aspx?itemNo=602(OG)

???

[Agran, Thomas F]

Did I miss something here? I am placing a big order to Seed Savers as
well. The lettuce mix is a nice mix. A lot of the ones they have in
there I have eaten before and are quite nice. The Forellenschuss also
makes a nice head lettuce. I like Amish Deer Tongue as well.

I would go with the faster growing arugula, the selvatica (I think
they call it sylvetta, I don't remember) is nicer, I think, (spicier)
but grows more slowly. You get a denser head with the apollo that you
can cut back and will regrow a number of times.

It might be tough to have a lot by June (if you're leaving around
then, right?)
that's...

my input.

[Carlos Ferguson]

Thanks for the ideas Thomas,

We'll be in Grinnell all of June and a bit of July.  I am going to start a bunch of stuff indoors and get it in the ground early May - so I think we can have greens all of June?  Peas, Cucumbers, Zucchini too?

Carlos

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[Jason Reitz]

Hey all,

Part one of the garden plan up, includes a how to helper on starting
plants if you want, also some info on the Grinnell area freeze and
hardiness zone, to help guide your plantings. I have put up the first
groups of plants that need started in the next week or weeks, take a
look if you want get it going, otherwise I know c-los is getting
excited to start planting in MI, so go for it, the only thing that
really needs some help right now is the pepper varieties, there is
just so many I couldn't get through them, so take a look and add some
or give some feedback, look for what you want, but also short season,
so like most peppers probably can't plant outside till mid to late
May, and they willl take like 50-100 days to mature, so we will be
getting towards the end of circus time.

The other plants I have tried for a variety and also for some early
season stuff, so we should be rolling with some goods early in June
and then really start rocking end of June and first part of July.

On the bottom I have a list of other plants, most of these need to be
directly seeded or will need to be started closer to last freeze day,
I will update the rest of these, if you come up with plants let me
know.

If you have questions send them out, if I don't know I will find out
from good sources...

Peace and happy growing

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