Today we are going to plant beans in the lettuce pot. Jen’s lettuce and spinach did really well but now they are tall and straggly. The leaves no longer are mild and sweet but are starting to get bitter. We pulled them out and broke up the soil to prepare it for planting beans. The soil in the container still has lots of good organic matter and nutrients left for another crop.
Jen placed the beans in a circle around the edges and left a place in the middle for a cucumber plant. The seeds around the edges get pushed into the soil to about the first knuckle on Jen’s finger. Then she gently pushed the soil over the holes and firmed it down.
Her family loves cucumbers so we took a trip to the nursery. Even though the variety of starts on the shelves is dwindling we found pumpkins and cucumbers. The cucumbers have two seeds in each 4 inch pot. They are a little overgrown being about 20 inches long with blossoms and even a baby cucumber. If they were smaller I would gently tease them apart and give them each their own space about 12 inches apart. Since these guys are already so big their roots are very intertwined so I will leave them undisturbed except to gently rough up the edges. The pot is between the other two so the vines can scramble over to the other pots as it grows.
While we were there Jen added a cage around the tomato. It is growing well and needed some support to keep growing upwards. The basil is growing below it.
We also gave some fertilizer to the tomato and the cucumber starts. We used a fertilizer that is for blossom and fruit. Following the directions we mixed the fertilizer with water and added it to the containers.
Can’t wait to see what happens!
You can put together a quick container for fresh beans too. Take a look at THIS post to put your pot together and get out there!!!
