Tedious as my scrutiny of my garden has been, I've been trying to figure out what is going on with two beds in the garden. They are supposed to be soybeans, but they don't look right. I've been online for an hour trying to find a bean seedling picture that looks like what is in the garden, but I've had no luck. Nothing. They aren't beans, they are sunflowers. When the first sunflowers I put in the ground sprouted so fast, I got excited and put them in a few other places. I didn't realize I'd planted so many.
I read up more on beans to try to figure out what happened. Since I put soybean seeds directly in the ground instead of starting them first and hardening them off, it seems as though the cool weather stunted them and may have killed them off all together.
I'm going to get more seeds tomorrow. I'm torn between putting them right in the ground and babying them with a clear plastic cover for tenting and humidity, starting them indoors and moving them out, or just putting them in the ground. It's supposed to be in the 86F tomorrow (after 42F a few nights ago) and if the ground warms up, it should be pretty good to get the seeds going. The temps are supposed to be over 55 at night and over 75 during the day all week.
The other bit of trauma is the reality that I'm going to have to pull up the sunflower seedlings. I didn't do a good job of researching the sunflowers I planted before I put them in the ground. I just picked a package and planted the seeds. Giant Russian sunflowers get ten feet tall (as pictured in an earlier post.) Neat, but the bulk of leaves the plant will need to get that tall are going to be too much for my little garden - too much shade for anything else to grow.
I have to be careful of the neighbor's garden too. Alexi put pepper plants right next to my sunflowers (mine were there first and he knew they were sunflowers) just over his side of the line. More excitement for later I guess.
Rainy storms tonight and maybe more in the morning. It's supposed to turn temps so fast tomorrow, severe weather (aka tornadoes) may hit Minnesota again. Last year, tornado-ish winds spun my green bean plants and pulled them out of the ground when they were over a foot tall. Keep your toes crossed. I'd like things to stay where I put them.
Happy Memorial Day, all!
I read up more on beans to try to figure out what happened. Since I put soybean seeds directly in the ground instead of starting them first and hardening them off, it seems as though the cool weather stunted them and may have killed them off all together.
I'm going to get more seeds tomorrow. I'm torn between putting them right in the ground and babying them with a clear plastic cover for tenting and humidity, starting them indoors and moving them out, or just putting them in the ground. It's supposed to be in the 86F tomorrow (after 42F a few nights ago) and if the ground warms up, it should be pretty good to get the seeds going. The temps are supposed to be over 55 at night and over 75 during the day all week.
The other bit of trauma is the reality that I'm going to have to pull up the sunflower seedlings. I didn't do a good job of researching the sunflowers I planted before I put them in the ground. I just picked a package and planted the seeds. Giant Russian sunflowers get ten feet tall (as pictured in an earlier post.) Neat, but the bulk of leaves the plant will need to get that tall are going to be too much for my little garden - too much shade for anything else to grow.
I have to be careful of the neighbor's garden too. Alexi put pepper plants right next to my sunflowers (mine were there first and he knew they were sunflowers) just over his side of the line. More excitement for later I guess.
Rainy storms tonight and maybe more in the morning. It's supposed to turn temps so fast tomorrow, severe weather (aka tornadoes) may hit Minnesota again. Last year, tornado-ish winds spun my green bean plants and pulled them out of the ground when they were over a foot tall. Keep your toes crossed. I'd like things to stay where I put them.
Happy Memorial Day, all!
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