Tag: peas

Salads

Besides asparagus, the main thing we’ve been getting out of the garden is salad greens.

The corn salad and spinach are doing great, kale and chard are coming in, and I’ve been thinning out the onions and beet greens.

Yesterday i found a couple of tiny peas!

Made me so happy.

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?

Yeah, so things are crazy.

It’s been a rough few weeks. P’s been working from home, and everything has shut down due to The virus. It feels equal parts apocalyptic and confusing. It is a VERY good thing that it’s happening in spring, and there has been enough sunshine to bask in,

Cooper passed away last week after fading quickly from the cancer’s return. It’s just us at home with Stevie. We only go out for necessities- most places are closed for the foreseeable future.

Anyways, I weeded and moved some stuff around today- lambs ear, catnip, grasses, lavender, etc. I put the “extra” seed starts in the greenhouse so I have room to transplants the other big ones this week. It’s still colder than I’d like – next week has highs in upper 40’s.

Asparagus is poking through, and some peas are sprouting. Spinach and corn salad are doing nothing.

Outside Stuff!

we finally got out and worked in the garden. I took a couple of retired brew buckets and planted spinach and corn salad in the raised bed mix.

P helped me turn over and amend the soil in South A to finish filling it with onions. We’ll see if the seeds do anything. The next section is redwing starts from the Grange, then Ringmaster from Territorial. I planted them pretty close (especially on the edges) to harvest some early as green onion and/or small ones.

I also got some peas in… the robins literally started cackling at each other when I started planting. Hopefully the baskets will keep those bastards away.

P put some harvest supreme in the asparagus bed. Here’s some progress…

We also took Cooper outside briefly… he’s not doing great so we want to give him all the fun.

Weeding and some harvest

these photos are from a few days. We’ve eaten a bunch of kale, a few squash and artichoke, some peas. We will need to split daisies and probably the cat mint this year. It’s out of control. I put flash tape out to discourage the robins from stealing all the berries. ? hopefully it helps. Tomatoes are green, beans are flowering, peppers are starting… Okra is failing. It’s been kinda rainy and cool, which I’m actually kind of thankful for. Onions and garlic will probably need harvesting in the next couple of weeks.ys.

More!

I have to admire it from up here (due to a hyper-extended knee) but the garden is looking gorgeous today!

ROLE CALL: tomatoes (Roma and cherry 5), peppers (sweet and hot- 10), artichokes (2 varieties), blueberries (7), huckleberry, salal (many), arugula, green beans, runner beans, beets, carrots, okra (6), asparagus, strawberries (sooo many), kale (out my ears), squash (4 varieties), peas, GARLIC (2 beds), onions (ditto), wax beans, apple (1), plum (1), herbs and flowers. (:

P had to move some soil, so we planted some new White Carolina strawberries, and the last three peppers (paprika and hot).

The Corsican mint looks really happy by the house.

I broke down the aerogarden and planted the basil in a larger deeper pot for inside. The ones I pulled had fully filled the pot with root, and were trying to dig deeper.

Weeded. Watered the clover seeds.

Planted some tarragon