Peas! They like it cool where you are. If you don't want to shell them, plant snow peas.Originally Posted by fidgiegirl
Peas! They like it cool where you are. If you don't want to shell them, plant snow peas.
Peas do fantastically well here. I usually seed them as soon as the ground begins to warm, and they last through about the end of July unless it's a scorching summer. I plant both sugar snaps and snow peas.
Here in the near-South DH plants snow peas and gets two handfuls of them each year and will barely share with me.
MMMM, yes, peas are on the list!
I was thinking you could plant stuff in different zones in your beds. Zucchini aren't as heavy feeders as tomatoes - you could do something with your tomatoes like recommended at this site: Planting tomatoes.
Is the county compost not very good?
I think it's fine, it's just if I'm lucky enough to have the stars align to get any or enough. It's pretty popular.
Will check out the tomatoes site!
I have the best deal: The city brings loads of wood chips and compost DIRECTLY TO MY GARDEN that I lease from the city. It's because I have a "community garden" (a community of two persons, me 'n DH, haha ) and so it qualifies for the freebies, delivered.
Yet another reason why St. Louis is the best place to live for cheapskates.
Last edited by iris lilies; 3-21-13 at 12:10am.
Nice, IL!!
Why the name change, BTW?
I have 2 accounts, one to work behind the scenes to register incoming members, and one to post as regular me.
Well, the coffee grounds pickup is going to be very fruitful for our plot. I asked the compost coordinator to come over to the garden and show me which is our plot. We have to do some trading of containers for the coffee grounds pickup anyway so hopefully she will be willing to do that. The volume is amazing. I probably picked up 100 lbs of grounds (they are so wet and messy) from three shops. I am scheduled to do the pickups from those three shops once a week. That will help, and I am also going to see if I can find another source. There is a big heap of leaves there already so maybe all I need is the leaves and then coffee grounds to balance them out.
A few years ago when I sheet mulched an alley garden into existence we used a bunch of burlap coffee sacks cut open to keep the material (lots of leaves) from blowing away during what we didn't know would be a pretty snowless winter. Too bad we gave them all away - they worked really well. But I wasn't going to move them! I suppose I could collect them again.
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