Uppotted tomatoes and tomatillos. Moved peppers outside. Put an orange pepper, all the okra, and a eggplant in planting bags. Refloored the greenhouse.
Potting outside
Tag: tomatillos
Fertilizing, weeding, progress, uppotting
It’s been warm for a few days, but we’re in for a stretch in the 40-50s. I weeded and fertilized the strawberry patch, fertilized the potted herbs, harvested more rhubarb for soda, mint for drying. The older plum tree is finally blooming, so hopefully we’ll get some pollinators. the peas are finally large enough to uncover, and the beets and carrots are sprouting. Garlic and onions are doing well. Potatoes (from grocery store) are sprouting and I’ve covered them a couple of times.
I up- potted a few of the larger starts and put them on the floor of the greenhouse, and moved the (late) sprouted peppers into 3” pots. I’m still unhappy with my starts, but I think some will pull through. (Btw- I felt the same way last year and it wasn’t as cold!) I definitely think starting with the little pods and transplanting is the best way to go.
The squash in the walls look good, the ones outside not so much- which I expected. I also fertilized the asparagus and cut a few pieces.
Starts
Planted tomatoes peppers and tomatillos in their little pods.
Finally tomato
Planted a legend, nova, and sungold in south a, and one nova in the lowest new bed. The weather has still been unseasonably cold, but looks like it will only get to 48 degrees a few nights this week.
I moved things around in the greenhouse and planted a plum tomato in one of the larger planting bags. I trimmed the old greenhouse shelves down to get myself another layer.
Some more progress.
Moved the remaining seedlings
Ugh. This spring is the pits. I moved the rest of the squash out to the garden in season starters, but the rest of the summer starts are still hiding in the greenhouse.
Repotted the peppers in the greenhouse, and restarted some ground cherry seeds because ACK they didn’t do well.
Here’s some progress. Nights are still getting below 45 degrees. Ridiculous.
Still going
We went away a couple of days which I thought was fine because “everything is done “
Not quite…
The remaining tomatoes are spotted, so they areare definitely done. The runner beans were not drying on the vine, so I pulled them and will dry and shell inside.
Today
More okra! This is BY FAR my best year.
Today’s harvest
Just kidding, it was actually this
We finally got rain yesterday after more than a month of dry. Everybody seems happier.
Garlic harvest and veggies
Pulled the garlic and onions, and got some squash the first 2 runner beans and one delicious
Sungold tomato
The music and nootka rose (from the grange) garlic was the winner this year. The susanville was a total dud.
I also moved two volunteer tomatillos onto west c with the plum tomato.
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.