Las Vegas Gardening – Planting March 2011

I live in an older home in Las Vegas did some planting this last Friday. After last year’s crop I have more of a feel for the amount of sun the raised beds and in-ground planters have. This year I’ve:

• Put in more in-ground planters along the back wall. This area gets a lot of direct sun.
• In all the raised beds except for bed #3, I’m doing a mix of either vegetables and flowers or herbs and flowers.

Current Garden Layout

In-ground Planters

1. Moon and Star Watermelon
2. Okra
3. empty
4. empty
5. Solar Fire Tomato
6. empty
7. Hot Portugal Chili
8. Sugar Snap Peas
9. empty
10. Zucchini
11. Bell Pepper
12. Masai Bush Beans
13. Early Girl Tomato
14. Super 100 Tomato [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][seed]
15. Cherry Tomato
16. Masai Bush Beans
17. Salad Bush Cucumber

Raised Beds

Some of the raised beds don’t get full sun because they are near and partially under some large trees. That works out to a degree when summer hits here in Las Vegas. In the Spring and Fall though it’s hard to grow vegetables in certain beds.

This is what I’ve planted so far in the raised beds.

Raised Bed #1
This raised bed gets the least amount of light because of the trees and being close to the house, but the Sage is still alive from last year’s planting.

Chinese House	Cilantro	Cilantro	Lettuce Basil
Tokyo Spring Mix	Dill [seed]	Bells of Ireland	Lettuce Basil
Pansy Moulin Rouge	Sage	Sage	Thyme
Viola, Amber Kiss	Cilantro	Cilantro	Thyme

Raised Bed #2
There is more afternoon sun, about 6 hours, that comes through the trees. This happens more in certain areas of the raised bed than others.

Sweet Basil	Sweet Basil	Viola, Amber Kiss	Viola, Amber Kiss
Sweet Basil	Tokyo Spring Mix Impatiens	Tokyo Spring Mix Impatiens	Spring Onion
Spring Onion	Tokyo Spring Mix Impatiens	Tokyo Spring Mix Impatiens	Spring Onion
Thyme	Sage	Cilantro	Sage

Raised Bed #3
This is the raised bed that gets the most light. Last year, I had two tomato plants that took over the entire bed. Pretty much I expect the same thing to happen this year so I planted other stuff that will be harvested before this happens or will be a vine.

Spring Onion	Large Leaf Basil	Moon and Star Watermelon	Okra
Spring Onion	Organic Sweetie Tomato	Organic Sweetie Tomato	Snap Pea
Radish	Organic Sweetie Tomato	Empty	Snap Pea
Radish	Japanese Cucumber	Kabocha	Okra

Raised Bed #4
Similar to Raised Bed #2, this one gets a mix of sun and shade. I still need to go through and possibly plant some vegetables or herbs that can be harvested before the Cherry Tomatoes get too big.

Chinese House	Empty	Dill	Dill
Empty	Cherry Tomato	Empty	Chinese House
Empty	Empty	Cherry Tomato	Empty
Chinese House [seed]	Empty	Summer Long Basil [seed]	Summer Long Basil

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