soggy donkey herder on Nostr: Spring planting is fun to talk about but it looks boring, so no pics. With the ...
Spring planting is fun to talk about but it looks boring, so no pics.
With the strawberries sorted and chicken wire on all the beds with frames, I’ve moved on to more spring sowing. I shuffled the packs of “good to plant now” seeds on the kitchen table and selected amaranth and spinach, then found some empty beds for them. I also found some beds that I planted with peas and then forgot 😅 so I marked those with this year’s plant marker experiment too! I’m using bamboo chopsticks as little poles, then wrapping a piece of wide white gaffer tape at the top as a flag. Black sharpie (seriously, one just says PEAS?!) should stay legible all year on that cloth tape surface.
I’ve got four beds of peas, hopefully spaced out by variety and sowing dates. One bed with half kale, half lettuce. A bed of spinach and one of amaranth.
The adhd demons hid the packet of carrot seeds so I reordered those — I really want to try the Lofthouse landrace carrots. Please, give me vigorous, easy carrots! I’ve tried the previous two years and harvested one (1) carrot the size of my pointer finger.
None of the asparagus in either half-ass asparagus patch has come up yet. Will probably succumb to temptation and buy more to plant in a third location the next time I go to the feed store.
One of the raised beds has two young blueberry bushes. Last year I plopped some mini strawberries around them for looks, but :shifty ninja eyes dart back and forth: I could put more full size strawberry runner babies in there, couldn’t I? No one can stop me!!
There’s two beds of self-seeded cilantro that are coming back nicely, and I’m trying to decide which one to keep and which to replant. The (unlabeled, thanks past donkey herder) garlic and shallots are looking good. I think the tree collard (a perennial brassica) died the true death, but none of the herbs did!
The raspberries in their tidy bed look very nice and vigorous. The volunteer raspberries growing out from underneath the old raised beds look untidy and vigorous. The *extra* volunteer raspberries I potted up last summer — another questionable past decision — are thriving and would like new homes.
Almost everything I started indoors for Round 2 has sprouted - lots of tomatoes, a few eggplant, one pepper, some rapini and fennel, chamomile and zaatar marjoram, plus flowers. I think it’s probably time to figure out Round 3. More pepper varieties, for sure! But maybe just a half-flat of soil blocks 😅
#gardening
With the strawberries sorted and chicken wire on all the beds with frames, I’ve moved on to more spring sowing. I shuffled the packs of “good to plant now” seeds on the kitchen table and selected amaranth and spinach, then found some empty beds for them. I also found some beds that I planted with peas and then forgot 😅 so I marked those with this year’s plant marker experiment too! I’m using bamboo chopsticks as little poles, then wrapping a piece of wide white gaffer tape at the top as a flag. Black sharpie (seriously, one just says PEAS?!) should stay legible all year on that cloth tape surface.
I’ve got four beds of peas, hopefully spaced out by variety and sowing dates. One bed with half kale, half lettuce. A bed of spinach and one of amaranth.
The adhd demons hid the packet of carrot seeds so I reordered those — I really want to try the Lofthouse landrace carrots. Please, give me vigorous, easy carrots! I’ve tried the previous two years and harvested one (1) carrot the size of my pointer finger.
None of the asparagus in either half-ass asparagus patch has come up yet. Will probably succumb to temptation and buy more to plant in a third location the next time I go to the feed store.
One of the raised beds has two young blueberry bushes. Last year I plopped some mini strawberries around them for looks, but :shifty ninja eyes dart back and forth: I could put more full size strawberry runner babies in there, couldn’t I? No one can stop me!!
There’s two beds of self-seeded cilantro that are coming back nicely, and I’m trying to decide which one to keep and which to replant. The (unlabeled, thanks past donkey herder) garlic and shallots are looking good. I think the tree collard (a perennial brassica) died the true death, but none of the herbs did!
The raspberries in their tidy bed look very nice and vigorous. The volunteer raspberries growing out from underneath the old raised beds look untidy and vigorous. The *extra* volunteer raspberries I potted up last summer — another questionable past decision — are thriving and would like new homes.
Almost everything I started indoors for Round 2 has sprouted - lots of tomatoes, a few eggplant, one pepper, some rapini and fennel, chamomile and zaatar marjoram, plus flowers. I think it’s probably time to figure out Round 3. More pepper varieties, for sure! But maybe just a half-flat of soil blocks 😅
#gardening