Today I planted beets and carrots!
Also p dug up the raspberry bed. I think we’ll probably put more asparagus in there.
Starts
Planted tomatoes peppers and tomatillos in their little pods.
Spring planting
Today we prepped beds and planted onion starts and peas. P also fertilized the asparagus. I planted spinach and arugula and cilantro to sprout in the greenhouse. As an experiment I also planted green peas from Trader Joe’s that sprouted in the refrigerated package… plan to eat those as pea shoots.
I also put clover seed in the mole hills.
Seed purchases for 2023
Ordered new seeds for the garden.
Cleanup and greenhouse update
I cleaned up the squash and ground cherries today. We’re going to have our first freeze this week.
Also, I cleaned up the greenhouse plants a little. It looks like the pepper plants are still making little peps (with hand pollination.)
Tomatoes are still ripening up inside
FOR 2023
Succulents
Potted a few succulent pups in my etched jars. I like to give them a few weeks to get situated before the holiday shop.
I also moved some pups into a big pot in the greenhouse as an experiment.
Garlic and Cleanup
Fiiiinnnallly got some rain and got garlic in the beds that had tomatoes. South A got (east to west) Italian Late, Duganski, and Music. West H got a mix of (east to west) soft neck and hard neck from this year’s harvest.
While we’re leaving most stuff out for now- I also cleaned up the tomato bags and okra. I transplanted the healthiest looking pepper plants into the greenhouse (with the heater) and one okra. We’ll see how they fair. i also started some beet and arugula micro greens in there.
Apple Cake
We got inspired by the bake off and memories of my grandma’s apple cake. I found an old recipe that was very good, but not quite what I remembered. I made some adjustments and plan to use even more apple on top next time.
Salsa in October
Such a weird year. We still have tomatoes slowly ripening the n the garden. We haven’t had measurable rain in forever, and today, MIDOCTOBER, it’s 80 degrees out.
Anyways, we’re making more salsa. This was a 60% batch and p is adding about a quarter of a habanero pepper in the batch.
6 cups of tomatoes (.6 batch) filled almost 6 jars