Category: Planting

Planting fall

Planted and harvested a bunch. Made pasta salad, roasted carrots, and carrot top pesto (garlic, lime juice, cilantro, garbanzo)

Planted more carrots. Btw the musico carrots were the clear winner this year. Purple snap did nothing (well, I got one.)

Planted fava, kale (micro kale hopefully works ok), chard in South C

Planted peas, and kale in West E (fava bed)

Planted arugula, spinach, mache in plant bags. Fertilized most of everything.

Potatoes and more

Earlier this week I upplanted most of the seedlings- today I finished putting everything into the greenhouses.

I got more runner beans, and put them in the soil, along with some new Romano bush beans.

We got a bunch of yukon gold seed potatoes from ourneighbor, so those went into containers today as well.

Things are looking pretty good. We’ve had some rain and cool which the new plants have liked. The favas are up to the top on the gate now, and I think the carrots and beets are finally coming up.

Am. So. Tired.

Started the day by turning over South A and B for beans. Planted green and yellow beans in A, and realized I only had 3 saved runner beans for b (put yellow in there, too, and replanted the tiny onions and leeks out of curiosity. I also threw in some nasturtium and marigolds on the ends.

We put a gate in the squash box for the winters to run on.

P moved the box from upper c down to become a new bed for thornless blackberries (donated plant). He also planted elderberries (Upper is Nova and York below) up by the neighbor’s door and gooseberries down where upper c box used to live.

I planted some gifted flowers – bearded iris, crocosmia, and something in the lily family along the driveway, and rescued a little japanese maple for the back slope.

There is more to do but I’m shaky now. Will see if I get out of bed tomorrow. (;

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)