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.

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.

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).

Better today.

It rained last night, and now it’s safer to breathe. I did some planting for fall stuff

Couple of spinaches in one bucket, more mache (vit) in the other. (I switched, so there might be some cross contamination.) Looks like I planted “New Zealand spinach” in the spring, so I’m planting that again, and “lakeside”.

Planted more snap peas in upper b.

We also did some cleanup.

And put favas in west e.

Today’s haul

It’s gloomy today, but we had a few warm days, so things are reacting.

Pea haul is light today.

Strawberries are crazy! (Almost 2 pints today.)

Corn salad and spinach are bolting. Boo

Little squash still, but delicata are running.

Tomatillo’s have pretty little lantern packets, first green fruit on tomatoes.

Green blueberries.

About a quarter of the onions were bolting, so i pulled them to dry. (In picture)

Also grabbed some rhubarb and garlic scapes (along with the onion scapes).

And the first little artichokes (I love this variety, the heads are small, but there’s more meat on them and they don’t get buggy.)