Planting zucchini and summer squash – March 28 2020

Today my projects were:

• Transplant zucchini and summer squash
• Add potting soil to the grapevine
• Transplant a strawberry into a bigger pot
• Transplant peppers and eggplants

My zucchini and summer squash were getting too big for the containers I had them in and they needed to be transplanted outside. I removed the radishes in the picture below to make space for zucchini.

I added half a bag of potting soil and mixed it into the ground.

I had 1 zucchini plant left and 4 summer squash. I planted the zucchini next to my other 2 zucchini plants that I transplanted a few weeks ago (bottom part of the picture).

I also planted radishes next to the zucchinis.

The next project was to add more potting soil to a grapevine that I got from a friend.

I prepared a mix using old soil from another pot, added two 5 gallon buckets of wood chips, one 5 gallon bucket of peat moss, half bucket of perlite and half bucket of steer manure.

I took the grapevine out of the pot and added the new mix at the bottom and sprinkled some starter fertilizer on top of it. I placed the plant on top of it and watered it.

Armstrong Garden was giving free strawberry plants with a purchase when I bought the ladybugs 2 weeks ago. I transplanted it into a bigger pot using the potting mix I just made.

My radishes and lettuce planted on January 11 as shown in this post were getting too big and overgrowing the peppers and eggplants. I removed all the radishes and most of the lettuce.

We made soup from the harvested lettuce.

I transplanted 2 peppers and 3 eggplants and filled up this garden bed.