Grinder's no-till vegetable garden

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03/03
Two 48-cell trays of pepper seeds started on heat mat:
6 DOUX D’ESPAGNE/SPANISH MAMMOTH SWEET PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds 2021)
12 MARCONI RED SWEET PEPPER (O.H. 2020)
6 ANCHO GIGANTIA MILD PEPPER (Totally Tomatoes)
12 GOLDEN CALWONDER SWEET PEPPER (O.H. 2020)
12 CALIFORNIA WONDER SWEET PEPPER (O.H. 2020)
12 CALIFORNIA WONDER SWEET PEPPER (Baker Creek 2020)
12 ANAHEIM MILD PEPPER (Totally Tomatoes)
12 ANAHEIM MILD PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds)
12 HUNGARIAN SWEET BANANNA PEPPER (O.H. 2020)


Over the next six to ten days, as germination proceeds, will fill all available heat pad space as follows:
6 LIPSTICK SWEET PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds 2021)
6 KING OF THE NORTH SWEET PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds 2021)
6 SERRANO TAMPEQUINO HOT PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds)
6 TAM MILD JALAPEÑO PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds)
6 TRAVELER JALAPENO PEPPER (Totally Tomatoes)
6 ZAPOTEC HOTTER JALAPEÑO PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds)
6 CRAIG'S GRANDE JALAPEÑO PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds 2021)

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03/13
(Remaining pepper seeds started)
6 LIPSTICK SWEET PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds 2021) 8-12 weeks/70 days
6 KING OF THE NORTH SWEET PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds 2021) 8-12 weeks/68 days
6 SERRANO TAMPEQUINO HOT PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 8-12 weeks/75 days
6 TAM MILD JALAPEÑO PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 8-12 weeks/70 days
6 TRAVELER JALAPENO PEPPER (Totally Tomatoes) 8-12 weeks/70 – 90 days
6 ZAPOTEC HOTTER JALAPEÑO PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 8-12 weeks/75 days
6 CRAIG'S GRANDE JALAPEÑO PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds 2021) 8-12 weeks/70 days
(Perennial seeds started)
6 COLORADO MIX YARROW (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 8-12 weeks/68/14-21/surface
6 PARKER'S VARIETY YARROW (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 8-12 weeks/60-90/10-14/surface

03/18
12 MARCONI RED SWEET PEPPER (O.H. 2020) (none sprouted - re-sowed seeds in 12 original cells)
(Additional pepper seed started in new cells due to low germination of first round)
6 DOUX D’ESPAGNE/SPANISH MAMMOTH SWEET PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds 2021) (2 per cell)
12 MARCONI RED SWEET PEPPER (O.H. 2021) 8-12 weeks/85 days (12 new cells with 2021 seeds 2 per cell)
6 ANCHO GIGANTIA MILD PEPPER (Totally Tomatoes) 8-10 weeks/80 days (2 per cell)
12 GOLDEN CALWONDER SWEET PEPPER (O.H. 2020) 8-12 weeks/75-80 days (2 per cell)
6 ANAHEIM MILD PEPPER (Totally Tomatoes) 8-10 weeks/75 days (2 per cell)
6 ANAHEIM MILD PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 8-12 weeks/80 days (2 per cell)
12 MARCONI RED SWEET PEPPER (O.H. 2020) (replanted 12 original unsprouted cells with remaining 2020 seeds)

(Perennial seeds started)
6 QUEEN MIX SALVIA (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 10 weeks/60-90/10-30/1/16 below surface
6 BUTTERFLY BUSH HYBRIDS MIX (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 8-10 weeks/70-75/7-21/press into surface
6 CANTERBURY BELLS – Campanula (Pinetree/Superseeds) 8-10/70-75/7-21/press into surface of soil/light
6 ECHINACEA PURPUREA - Purple Coneflower (Pinetree/Superseeds) 8-10 weeks/70-75/10-21/1/8 below surface
6 MCKANA GIANTS – Aquilegia (Pinetree/Superseeds) 8-10/surface, wrap & frig. 2-3 wks. then 65-75/14-30
6 SEDUM MIX (Pinetree/Superseeds) 8-10/sow on surface then wrap in plastic & frig. 2 weeks, then 60-70/5-30
6 SPIELARTEN MIX BEE BALM (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 8-10 weeks/60-90/14-21/surface sow/light6
6 SPOTTED BEE BALM (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 8-10 weeks/60-90/14-21/surface sow/light

03/26
(Tomato seeds started)
6 MATT’S WILD CHERRY TOMATO (Pinetree/Superseeds) 6-10 weeks/55 days/indeterminate (2 per cell)

04/04
(Tomato seeds started - full 96 cells)
6 A GRAPPOLI D'INVERNO TOMATO (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 6-10 weeks/75 days/indeterminate
6 MARTINO'S ROMA TOMATO (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 6-10 weeks/70-80 days/determinate
6 PERON TOMATO (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 6-10 weeks/70 days/semi-determinate
6 RASPBERRY LYANNA TOMATO (Baker Creek/Rareseeds 2021) 6-10 weeks/75-85 days/semi-determinate
12 SAN MARZANO HEIRLOOM TOMATO (O.H. 2021) 6-10 weeks/80 days/indeterminate
6 CHEROKEE PURPLE TOMATO (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 6-10 weeks/80 days/indeterminate
6 GERMAN LUNCHBOX TOMATO (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 6-10 weeks/70-80 days/indeterminate
6 HORIZON TOMATO (Totally Tomatoes) 6-10 weeks/75 days/indeterminate
6 HUNGARIAN HEART TOMATO (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 6-10 weeks/80 days/indeterminate
18 JET STAR HYBRID TOMATO (Totally Tomatoes) 6-10 weeks/70 days/indeterminate
6 TAPPYS HERITAGE TOMATO (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 6-10 weeks/85 days/indeterminate
6 TOMMY TOE TOMATO (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 6-10 weeks/75 days/indeterminate
6 WISCONSIN 55 TOMATO (Totally Tomatoes) 6-10 weeks/75 days/indeterminate

(Perennial seeds started)
6 BABY SUN COREOPSIS (Pinetree/Superseeds) 6-8 weeks/65-75/7-10/sow on surface & press into soil/light
6 BLANKET FLOWER (Pinetree/Superseeds) 6-8 weeks/70-75/14-30/1/8 below surface
6 GREEK OREGANO (Pinetree/Superseeds) 6-8 weeks/70-75/7-14/barely cover seed
6 INDIAN SUMMER RUDBECKIA - Black Eyed Susan (Pinetree/Superseeds) 6-8 weeks/70-75/7-12/surface/light
6 RUSSEL MIX LUPINE (Pinetree/Superseeds) 6-8 weeks/soak 24 hrs. then sow 1/8 below surface/55-65/7-21/
6 WHITE YARROW - Achillea (Pinetree/Superseeds) 6-8 weeks/60-65/10-30/sow on surface & press into soil/light

04/08
(Pepper seedlings transplanted into medium pots)
1 DOUX D’ESPAGNE/SPANISH MAMMOTH SWEET PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds 2021) 8-12 weeks/90 days
10 CALIFORNIA WONDER SWEET PEPPER (O.H. 2020) 8-12 weeks/75 days
9 CALIFORNIA WONDER SWEET PEPPER (Baker Creek 2020) 8-12 weeks/70 days
3 ANAHEIM MILD PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 8-12 weeks/80 days
? 1 MYSTERY PEPPER

04/09
(More tomato seeds started)
12 CHADWICK CHERRY TOMATO (Baker Creek/Rareseeds 2020) 6-10 weeks/80 days/indeterminate

(Additional Matt's Wild Cherry Tomato seeds started due to low germination)
6 MATT’S WILD CHERRY TOMATO (Pinetree/Superseeds) 6-10 weeks/55 days/indeterminate

(Basil seeds started)
6 GENOVESE BASIL (Baker Creek/Rareseeds 2021) 68 days

(Pepper seedlings transplanted into medium pots)
7 ANAHEIM MILD PEPPER (Totally Tomatoes) 8-10 weeks/75 days
5 ANAHEIM MILD PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 8-12 weeks/80 days
8 HUNGARIAN SWEET BANANNA PEPPER (O.H. 2020) 8-12 weeks/72 days

04/16
(Perennial seeds started)
6 CLEOPATRA MIX SALVIA (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 6 weeks/68-75/10-30/1/16 below surface

(Pepper seedlings transplanted into medium pots)
2 DOUX D’ESPAGNE/SPANISH MAMMOTH SWEET PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds 2021) 8-12 weeks/90 days
1 MARCONI RED SWEET PEPPER (O.H. 2020) 8-12 weeks/85 days
4 ANCHO GIGANTIA MILD PEPPER (Totally Tomatoes) 8-10 weeks/80 days
1 GOLDEN CALWONDER SWEET PEPPER (O.H. 2020) 8-12 weeks/75-80 days
2 ANAHEIM MILD PEPPER (Totally Tomatoes) 8-10 weeks/75 days
1 HUNGARIAN SWEET BANANNA PEPPER (O.H. 2020) 8-12 weeks/72 days
3 ZAPOTEC HOTTER JALAPEÑO PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 8-12 weeks/75 days

04/18
(Pepper seedlings transplanted into medium pots)
3 MARCONI RED SWEET PEPPER (O.H. 2020) 8-12 weeks/85 days
6 ANAHEIM MILD PEPPER (Totally Tomatoes) 8-10 weeks/75 days
6 KING OF THE NORTH SWEET PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds 2021) 8-12 weeks/68 days
6 SERRANO TAMPEQUINO HOT PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 8-12 weeks/75 days
6 TAM MILD JALAPEÑO PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 8-12 weeks/70 days
1 TRAVELER JALAPENO PEPPER (Totally Tomatoes) 8-12 weeks/70 – 90 days
4 CRAIG'S GRANDE JALAPEÑO PEPPER

04/27
(Pepper seedlings transplanted into medium pots)
6 DOUX D’ESPAGNE/SPANISH MAMMOTH SWEET PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds 2021)
12 MARCONI RED SWEET PEPPER (O.H. 2021) 8-12 weeks/85 days
5 ANCHO GIGANTIA MILD PEPPER (Totally Tomatoes) 8-10 weeks/80 days
1 GOLDEN CALWONDER SWEET PEPPER (O.H. 2020) 8-12 weeks/75-80 days
6 ANAHEIM MILD PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 8-12 weeks/80 days
3 LIPSTICK SWEET PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds 2021) 8-12 weeks/70 days
2 TRAVELER JALAPENO PEPPER (Totally Tomatoes) 8-12 weeks/70 – 90 days
2 ZAPOTEC HOTTER JALAPEÑO PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 8-12 weeks/75 days

(Pepper seedling totals)
9 DOUX D’ESPAGNE/SPANISH MAMMOTH SWEET PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds 2021) 8-12 weeks/90 days
16 MARCONI RED SWEET PEPPER (O.H. 2020) 8-12 weeks/85 days
9 ANCHO GIGANTIA MILD PEPPER (Totally Tomatoes) 8-10 weeks/80 days
7 GOLDEN CALWONDER SWEET PEPPER (O.H. 2020) 8-12 weeks/75-80 days
10 CALIFORNIA WONDER SWEET PEPPER (O.H. 2020) 8-12 weeks/75 days
9 CALIFORNIA WONDER SWEET PEPPER (Baker Creek 2020) 8-12 weeks/70 days
15 ANAHEIM MILD PEPPER (Totally Tomatoes) 8-10 weeks/75 days
14 ANAHEIM MILD PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 8-12 weeks/80 days
9 HUNGARIAN SWEET BANANNA PEPPER (O.H. 2020) 8-12 weeks/72 days
3 LIPSTICK SWEET PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds 2021) 8-12 weeks/70 days
6 KING OF THE NORTH SWEET PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds 2021) 8-12 weeks/68 days
6 SERRANO TAMPEQUINO HOT PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 8-12 weeks/75 days
6 TAM MILD JALAPEÑO PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 8-12 weeks/70 days
3 TRAVELER JALAPENO PEPPER (Totally Tomatoes) 8-12 weeks/70 – 90 days
5 ZAPOTEC HOTTER JALAPEÑO PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 8-12 weeks/75 days
4 CRAIG'S GRANDE JALAPEÑO PEPPER (Baker Creek/Rareseeds 2021) 8-12 weeks/70 days
1 MYSTERY PEPPER
132 total pepper plants (including five 04B transplanted into medium pots on 04/30)
(69 sweet / 38 mild / 24 hot / 1 mystery)

04/28
(Tomato seedlings transplanted into medium pots)
8 MATT’S WILD CHERRY TOMATO (Pinetree/Superseeds) 6-10 weeks/55 days/indeterminate
6 A GRAPPOLI D'INVERNO TOMATO (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 6-10 weeks/75 days/indeterminate
1 RASPBERRY LYANNA TOMATO (Baker Creek/Rareseeds 2021) 6-10 weeks/75-85 days/semi-determinate
1 HORIZON TOMATO (Totally Tomatoes) 6-10 weeks/75 days/indeterminate
4 HUNGARIAN HEART TOMATO (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 6-10 weeks/80 days/indeterminate
3 TAPPYS HERITAGE TOMATO (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 6-10 weeks/85 days/indeterminate

04/29
(Tomato seedlings transplanted into medium pots)
10 SAN MARZANO HEIRLOOM TOMATO (O.H. 2021) 6-10 weeks/80 days/indeterminate
5 CHEROKEE PURPLE TOMATO (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 6-10 weeks/80 days/indeterminate
4 GERMAN LUNCHBOX TOMATO (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 6-10 weeks/70-80 days/indeterminate
11 JET STAR HYBRID TOMATO (Totally Tomatoes) 6-10 weeks/70 days/indeterminate
3 TOMMY TOE TOMATO (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 6-10 weeks/75 days/indeterminate
4 WISCONSIN 55 TOMATO (Totally Tomatoes) 6-10 weeks/75 days/indeterminate

04/30
(Tomato seedlings transplanted into medium pots)
6 MARTINO'S ROMA TOMATO (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 6-10 weeks/70-80 days/determinate
6 PERON TOMATO (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 6-10 weeks/70 days/semi-determinate
10 CHADWICK CHERRY TOMATO (Baker Creek/Rareseeds 2020) 6-10 weeks/80 days/indeterminate
82 total tomato plants

(Pepper seedlings transplanted into medium pots)
5 GOLDEN CALWONDER SWEET PEPPER (O.H. 2020) 8-12 weeks/75-80 days

(Perennial seedlings transplanted into medium pots)
6 QUEEN MIX SALVIA (Baker Creek/Rareseeds) 10 weeks/60-90/10-30/1/16 below surface
6 RUSSEL MIX LUPINE (Pinetree/Superseeds) 6-8 weeks/soak 24 hrs. then sow 1/8 below surface/55-65/7-21/

05/01
Seedlings outdoors for the first time for 1 hour (taking advantage of this year's first favorable conditions for direct sunlight and to begin hardening-off process).

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05/22 - 06/02
All 90 perennial seedlings transplanted into flower garden (all 6 Lupin succumbed to some sort of disease).
All 82 tomato plants transplanted into vegetable garden (81 healthy plants remain, as one was killed by wind).
All 132 pepper plants transplanted into vegetable garden (a few pepper plants have issues; the rest are healthy).

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06/02
Tomato plants are doing very well, with lots of tomatoes on the way. Pepper plants are also doing very well, some plants already have peppers on the way - particularly Hungarian Banana Peppers, which are typically first to show fruit and remain prolific all season.





Large green area toward middle-near side of the garden, and other green areas between tomato rows and adjacent to the pepper patch, are daikon tillage radish sprouts/seedlings from seeds raked into decomposing wood chips on 06/07. They serve as a tillage cover crop, to soften/loosen/condition the soil, to add biomass, and to attract and feed earthworms and microorganisms that bring life to and replenish the soil. This is something I’ve been wanting to do all along, but conditions and circumstances kept pushing it off to a later date.


Planted a few small patches of daikon early-fall last year, and this spring those areas had greatly improved soil with a lot of worms. Here’s a picture showing those patches after a hard frost on 11/20.

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Update:

Daikons bolted and went to seed in the heat, so didn't do as much as I'd hoped in terms of a tillage crop. At the end of the season, I mowed it all down with the brush hog.

All things considered, it was a very good harvest. Most of the tomato varieties I tried for the first time in 2022 didn't do well, but some of them did. Most of the pepper varieties I tried for the first time in 2022 did very well.

Getting ready for 2023 garden. Will begin starting seeds on heat mat next week.

Here are some pictures of 2022 garden (07/27/2022 - 11/15/2022):

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First pepper sprouts (leftover seeds from 2020, started on 3/13 - sweet peppers: California Wonder, Purple Beauty and Cubanelle).



More pepper seeds should be sprouting any day now (leftover seeds from 2020 and 2021, started on 3/20 - more Cubanelle; and also sweet peppers: Hungarian Banana, Marconi Red, Golden Calwonder and Nadapeno; and hot pepper: Craig's Grande Jalapeno).

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Beautiful harvests. You definitely don't have to worry when shit hits the fan.