Volunteer Potatoes appear to be recovering a bit from the frost.
About half of the cold-hardy Kiwi leaves turned brown. Spinach appears to be sprouting. Will be covering the area around the volunteer potatoes with a bit more compost/mulch this weekend.
Lots of other projects though, so not too much time. Prayers up for all. Have a great weekend. God Bless.
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In the Colorado Rockies it is snowing and the forecast is that it will continue till Sunday with possibly 2 ft of wet spring snow. I 70 is already closed in the mountains and Denver International Airport has already cancelled 400 flights for Saturday.
Planted my 1st garden in since 2013. Been remodeling on the house, which then called for rehabbing my destroyed back yard! Green beans are up, trying a new way to plant the tomatoes - so have 15 tom plants, some zucchini, squash and peppers. I’ve got 20 okra plants I started from seed that I will transplant in the garden soon, and in a couple of weeks it will be time for black-eyed peas. My husband and I agree you can’t have too many of those.
I am SERIOUSLY thinking of an underground greenhouse! Been wanting one for 4 years or so, but it’s hard to know just how to build it, especially when most of them are designed for more Northerly zones. But we are just getting a tornado room completed & the guy tells me he can build the greenhouse, so I may do that when it’s closer to summer & I don’t have to worry about rain.
Do any of you have advice or information about a sunken greenhouse?
Just put in 200 Copra, 75 cipollini, and 25 red torpedo. Potatoes went in yesterday. I’m read to taste the tomatoes, but they can’t even go in the ground for a month!
It was a Gardeners Day on Humboldt Bay today. I got back from my errands at 11;30, changed to my garden clothes, went out in the garden and took a 2 hour nap...
Finally got my welder assembled and working, so I could repair the hitch on the garden tractor. So much easier to trailer the water to where I need it. Of course, I won’t be watering until next weekend, as we’re getting long, slow soaking rains—maybe a skiff of snow, too—through Tuesday afternoon/evening.
Still no sign of carrots, so will replant next week. Turnip & pea seedlings are looking good, as is the garlic.
I really hate inaccurate packaging. Yesterday, I opened one of my two “100 bulb” bags of onion sets; soaked them, then planted them. 185 were in the bag, and the other look just the same. I bought 2 bags because I wanted between 150 & 200 sets, so one would have been sufficient. Really don’t want to devote that much extra space to them.
How long, and how, can the other bag be saved? Some are beginning to sprout in the bag. I COULD plant them in the Fall, if they’ll keep.
The weather has been beautiful here in Central Missouri for the past few days. We badly need a nice rain shower. The weather guessers on the radio this morning said we’re ~5” below normal rainfall for the year so far.
Most of my morel hunting spots have been super crunchy and non-productive for the last two weeks. Hopefully we’ll get some moisture next week out of the system that’s heading this way from the Rockies. On the bright side, I checked a spot after work today that gets a lot of seepage due to being low on a hillside, and found half a dozen nice fat, very fresh greys that popped up since I last checked it on Wednesday. I’ll look again there on Sunday evening.
I got lucky last week and found a great deal on a very slightly used 5’ roto-tiller for Nanner. Same brand, $450 less money and a foot wider than the one I was planning to buy at the local John Deere store, and it’s only a ten minute drive from my house to get it. I’m going to pick it up early tomorrow afternoon. I’ll put it to work in the tomato patch and the back field food plot as soon as I get home with it.
My asparagus patch has exploded in the last few days. I’ll get the first cutting out of that tomorrow. The green salad in the cold frame has also gone nuts with all of the sunshine. Supper here tomorrow is going to be good.
Got 500 indeterminate tomatoes caged and 350 determinates strung the last three days, have 400 more early tomatoes to plant. Everything looks great, potatoes are starting to crack the ground, 700 squash plants are beginning to bloom and the cabbage is starting to head. The Decatur/Morgan Farmers Market opens next weekend, I should be ready. I have been busy hope to post some pics next week.
It has been a tough couple of weeks. Two weeks ago, we lost Alex the Border Collie. He was in failing health and 13-years old. Apparently, a brain tumor triggered grande mals and left him blind and paralized. He went to the Rainbow Bridge on Sunday, the 3rd.
Our Bees are installed a week now. Filling our Bog Filter with pea gravel, now. Will use it to clean our duck pond water.
Moving raised beds and will level that spot and it will become my garden for potatoes, winter squash, brussels spouts, cabbage and corn.
We’ve been in the midst of a Gully Washer, from last night, the happy clapping of thunder and a lightening show. It’s so loud I can hear the rain bouncing off the patio roof.
Our up and down weather has confused the plants. Right now it is windy and chilly, very brisk to say the least. That did not stop me from sprucing up the planters and taking stock of what’s happening. Lilies are coming up, as are hyacinths. Grape hyacints are blooming. Daffy’s sent up shoots but no flowers. I’ll have to get more bone meal. Lettuce doing very well; I’ve had a few salads already from this crop. Hope the weather report is accurate and temperatures will warm up a bit.
My daughter and her husband gave me several chili pepper plants last Sunday. I set them inside my raised garden in the pots so I could plant them on Monday. Sunday night the new puppy came in carrying part of the peat pot. He had reached through the pickets on the fence and destroyed every one of them. Time to start over.
My husband left my seedlings out the other night when the temperature plummeted to 33 degrees. Fortunately, I was awake at 4:30AM, and it ocurred to me that given how hectic it’s been since our 14 year old Ridgeback developed seizures and had to have splenectomy, he might have forgotten. I went downstairs and brought them in. Thankfully, although some appear to have died, others were damaged, but still viable.
We both concluded that worse things have happened. :)
Saturday I woke up to an inch of wet snow; gone by noon. Light showers since, for a total of 1.1” of water in the gauge.
Carrots are starting to finally peek through.
Pea patch’s bare spots are filling in, as the deeper planted ones are finally breaking through. I don’t plant them; instead, I scatter the seeds rather thickly over the area, then run the tiller over them at minimal depth setting. Gives a wide row of about 30” width. This one is close to 25’ long.
First cutting of asparagus should be Wednesday or Thursday, provided the reports are right, and the spears don’t freeze.