Author: alisonml

Moving things

I feel like my sprouts have been struggling a bit in my office, so I moved everything into my succulent case in the front room. Hopefully they’ll be warmer and happier.

Also, maaaaggggnnnets are awesome.

This week

Thursday I replanted the tomato and tomatillo sprouts, and started okra and squash.

The greens are getting started. (That was Thursday as well.)

P worked up South D and I finally planted carrots and beets down there.

He’s clearing out space for two new beds now, near the fence. Extra beds! Yay!

Still just two arugula sprouts- but one is THICK.

Looks like someone was playing in my onion beds. Lots pulled up, some replanted upside down, markers tossed about.

I also planted cilantro (outside and inside) and basil (inside), more peas and kale in the pea bed.

More onions, some weeding, some fertilizer

After planting the little threads that were the result of my winter sowing, I didn’t have big hopes for them, so I grabbed a couple more bundles of spanish yellow and ringmaster the next time I went to the grange.

But low and behold, the little threads are hanging in there! I ran more of the ringmaster onions around the onion bed, then realized one of my garlic beds was half empty. I put the spanish yellow and the remaining onion threads in that bed. I had good luck planting tight and thinning throughout the season last summer, so hopefully that happens again.

There are two asparagus guys poking through the soil, which is EXCITING.

Here’s the State of the sprouts. The arugula is starting in the short greenhouse.

I fertilized the strawberries (box) and herb pots (bottle). Let spring come!

Planted onions and peas and greens

It was very cold and rainy today, after a few beautiful false spring days, but I finally got greens, peas, and onions in the ground. I just poured one kind of pea on each side of the fence and covered them with baskets. (The robins cackled at me the whole time.)

I put up the new little greenhouse tent, and put the three buckets inside. I planted arugula (rocket and speedy), mache (vit), and spinach (lakeside and New Zealand). Once they sprout I’ll move the buckets back out to grow, maybe on the deck where we’ll get to it easier.

I planted an assortment of onions- (left to right) ringmaster (plants from grange), red carmen (bulbs from grange), assorted bulbs from last year (these were the tiny bulbs I dug up last summer that I grew from seed), assorted winter sown (tiny) seedlings, yellow spanish (plants from grange).

2021 Planning

Ordered some seeds today and worked on some planning. We will be putting in at least one new bed with the plan to remove the “upper” beds when we can. (=