Temperature - Sparks 57, CC&R Farm 66
Soil temp 62
Yesterday I planted onion starts that should have been in the ground at least a month ago...if they don't get to full size we'll eat them as baby onions.
Sowed third round of beets (Baby Ball and Cylindra). The pill bugs in our raised beds really love these and ate the other two batches. I'm going to start picking them out of the beds. There's no mulch so no place to hide.
Sowed Kentucky Wonder, Contender, Lazy Housewife, and Empire pole beans, and Tri-color bush beans. Some on the slanted fence trellis, other at the base of 6 ft bamboo poles inserted into the keyhole bed soil.
To increase bean germination success rate I roll the seeds in moist (not wet) paper towels, put the roll into a sealable plastic bag, and let it sit for hours prior to planting. Then the seeds were coated in legume inoculant right before they went into the soil.
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