Author: alisonml

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. (=

To bed for winter

In the last week everything else died, so we cleaned up today. We got no grapes this year. Hm. I planted more garlic from the grange, and a few bits from our own stash because the deerfield that territorial sent me to replace the bad batch was even worse

Have a bed and a half of garlic now. (The second bed is nootka rose then assortedhardneck)

Garlic

Planting in the gloom today- west c

Shed to maple- music (hn), duganski (hn), susanville (sn), nootka rose (sn, from grange)

Well, had to ditch that layout because the Duganski garlic was in REALLY bad shape. 

I’ve got an email into the seed company, but in the meantime I planted all the Nookta rose (2 heads) all the Susanville (8 oz- about 4 heads worth?) and all the music (although they were very big cloves, so there’s less of that.) There’s this much left in the bed

P got the Nootka rose at the Grange, so maybe I’ll swing by there and grab a few more heads of something. Should I do just one bed this year?