Sunday, June 5, 2011

Planted 2011

Finally got everything planted today. Our weather has been either stormy or blistering hot with nothing in between, but today wasn't too bad so we got all the sprouts planted and outside.
Some like peppers, squash, cucumbers and tomatoes are in pots on the porch because they will over whelm the Grow Camp and block out everything else, as we learned from last year.


 This loose head lettuce was transplanted from grow camp. It was the strongest of the lot but it, and many others that sprung up on their own, were crowding out the beans and peas that we want to grow in there.
It didn't like being moved at all but it might recover...


A couple more steak tomato plants on the ground because I ran out of pots.

We plan on moving the tomatoes out next the grow camp so they get full sun. On the patio they only get sun from about 1pm on.


Hanging tomatoes are doing pretty good even though 2 of them were broken.

Chives, carrots and now a bunch of new sweet onions. This is the sunny spot in the camp and this time we put the small leaf stuff here in hopes it does better. Last year we put tomatoes in this spot and they overwhelmed.

Strawberries are really gaining ground by launching vines to different spots and then taking root.


Lettuce and strawberries are growing (taking over) on their own, none were planted this year, this all grew on it's own from last years crop.





Setup the timed sprinkler system again. 20 min at 7am and 20 min at 7pm.

Onions.


We did finally get a couple replacement clear panels for our cracked ones under warranty from the US distributor. They shipped them fast but they initially argued that the warranty for those was only 1 year. We showed proof from Costco that the warranty was 5 years on those parts and they honored it, but still tried to fight it. They were not very customer service orientated in my opinion. 

They tried to charge for the panels initially, but when it was proven that these are under a 5 year warranty, the women told us she was aware of that...? Then why try to first get money out of us, (on the first phone call, but then said "well, ok, no charge THIS time"). But yet the warranty IS in fact for 5 years and they acknowledged that? That is our ONLY complaint about this thus far.