Category: The Garden

Our house is a berry berry berry fine house

<we have not planted any of these yet.

Today we got a whole bunch of awesome plants from a friend who is moving- mostly berries. P was quick to get the mature blueberries (~20yo “Blue and Gold”) in the ground , but we still have a lot to decide about.

She also gave me some of this mint variety – looks like it’s Bee Balm or Monarda. I planted near the elephant ear.

These plants will also need planting- columbine in the bottom of the first pot, and something with yellow flowers in the second one.

Native raspberries and thornless blackberries and strawberries.

Here are the notes I took about pruning (in February) “prune dead wood, and branch under 6″, old canes (to base), crossing canes”

Repotting and planting squash

Repotted many of the sprouts, and moved some out into the greenhouse. It’s been WARM so p hooked up the irrigation today- including the new beds. New bed west f got squashed. I transplanted my sprouts and put some seeds in.

Some progress

And a new visitor (bald eagle)

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).