EggMeister's 2018 Veggie Progress - Self-Sufficiency Drive - May Update

Hello All,

A few weeks ago I made a start on trying to become familiar with growing a few of my own veggies. Feel free to get the back story from my previous post on the subject: https://steemit.com/homesteading/@eggmeister/eggmeister-s-2018-veggie-progress-self-sufficiency-drive

Anyhoo, it was about time I give you guys an update as to the progress so far. Just a heads-up but it's fair to say so far that everything seems pretty good (I'm just happy I've managed to get some signs of life).

Towards the end of April I've got 9 definite red potatoes coming up out of 14 (the seedling top right in the 4x3 tub is an impostor) and 4 butternut squashes out of 8 seeds. So about a 75% success rate for the tatties but only 50% for the squashes.

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It's now the 10th of May and I've transferred the seedlings to mum's garden, all that white stuff lying around is blossom :) The potatoes are under the lemonade bottles and the squashes are top right. I've also planted the runner beans, two either side of each cane (36 beans in total).

I'm not sure if I've got the squashes too close together though.

The potatoes are in a 4 inch trench so I can cover them with more soil at a later date to increase yield (Well; that's the plan).

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Here I am on the 15th of this month, doing a spot of watering (as mum isn't able to keep up with the task).

I've added a mix of crushed egg shells and wood shavings to try and keep the slugs off but also to slow the evaporation after watering. A rough count of the runner beans shows about 15-18 of the little'uns have now made it to sunlight.

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Watch this space folks, it might start to get exciting ;)

Bye for now,

Eggmeister.