Category: The Garden

Plant Count

This is what’s inside or in the greenhouse currently…

OKRA
Jambalaya 3
Clemson 3

PEPPERS
Jalapeño 4
Anaheim 3
Waltz 2
Mini Bell Pepper 4
Healthy 9!

TOMATO
Nova 5
Sungold 2
Legend 5

TOMATILLO 3

So much

Honestly, I’ve been working in the garden more days than not. I spends hours weeding, working the soil, watering, planting… It’s good. It feels like good work that I’m doing. I know I’m making progress, doing things i wouldn’t do otherwise- of course it doesn’t seem to be enough… never… but anywho.

Yesterday I planted 6 more squash with season starters. I have a couple more plants I’ll try to put along the driveway

Definitely easier to fill those around a bucket.

Today I did a ton of weeding- the upper slope and main slope. P prepped a couple of beds for tomatoes.

The tiny gray cat pooped in my pea box, so that’s annoying. I put some baskets in the planter to make it less appealing.

I’m feeling the usual antsiness to get things in the ground- coupled with a little extra “should I plant everything because it may be hard to get fresh foods?” P is being his usual supportive self and saying “sure!” to everything, but I know he’s a little anti (growing) potatoes and quinoa (“too much work for the payoff”)

I am very glad that i am already gardening- most of the seed companies arent filling orders anymore, and it’s tricky to buy plants. This is a weird world we are living in.

I am very happy to have the garden to pour all my energy into.

More mulching, planting, shenanigans

We mulched a bunch more yesterday, made some progress.

Today i planted beets, carrots, and parsley in South C (which I prepped with more soil and compost yesterday.

There were actually some tiny onion and leek sprouts from my seeds, i added the tiny “winter sowed” sprouts to the bare spaces.

Next year- start winter sow earlier, January?, and make sure to water.

something went digging in my peas. It looks like an animal of some sort. The sprouts are mostly intact, just buried.

Arugula is bolting. I guess it flowers based on time?

Squashes

Dear Future Alison- the correct date to start squash seeds is early April, not early March.

I put a few seedlings out with season lengtheners.

Hopefully they survive.

I also put azomite and dry fertilizer with them.

Screaming

The stay-at-home stuff I can deal with- by the lack of warmth and sunshine is going to drive me batty. March was colder than January. It froze last night. I could barely handle being outside to transplant this morning… but i did it. Now I’ve got a fire going and I’m sitting in the window when the sun breaks through.

Here are the inside seedlings