First Fall Garden Planting

Gardening

8/18/2019 – By 8 AM, while the east side was still in the shade, Mary and I had pulled up individual hills in the first two wide rows. The number of seeds and depth were per the plans here. The vegetables planted and spacing are as follows.

  1. Eastmost row, 4′ from the grass, starting from the north end we planted:
    1. Cucumbers – 3 hills 3′ apart
    2. Sugar Pie Pumpkins – 3 hills 5′ apart
    3. Table Ace Acorn Squash – 4 hills 7′ apart
  2. Next Row, 8′ from the eastmost, starting from the north end we planted:
    1. Spaghetti Squash – 7 hills, 5′ apart
    2. Waltham Butternut Squash – __ hills 2′ apart.

8/23/2019 – All hills have sprouted with two leaves