Managed to prep a pretty good chunk of garden.
Most wonderful thing was discovering (or rediscovering) a fully composted weed pile which added tremendous organic matter to a bed that wasn't in bad shape to begin with.
Sunday, April 24th:
Cilantro
Chioggia beets
Nantes carrots
Dante carrots
Nasturtium
Bok choy
Spinach
Lettuce
Soaking beans
Early this past week, temps dropped to the 20's just a few days after temps in the high 60's caused bud burst all over town.
These mushy bleeding hearts were a casualty in my yard - But I'm definitely worried about fruit crops on farms in our surrounding valleys.
Wah.
Sometimes you get a break. One you didn't deserve.
Today I divided and replanted at least 80 garlic plants. I abandoned the garlic plot two years ago after the harvest showed what I thought was a fungus infesting the heads.
Turns out it was frost damage, and the survivors made it through last summer and were ready to go again this summer.
Awesome.
Well, they nearly cooked Friday morning, but I managed to remember to vent around 11, and they survived. Their contemporaries under the light in the house are getting leggy and falling over, but otherwise they look about the same right now.
Two out of seven in the cold frame have been munched. Perpetrator has not been identified.
I can't remember how long ago exactly, but the kids and I started chard, basil, and nasturtium.
I don't have a good light set up so I always have leggy seedlings.
I decided to place some of the chard seedlings out in the cold frame. About half.
The ones inside will get leggy and will outgrow their egg cartons.
The ones outside will die because:
1. They were too young to transplant
2. A bug or fungus will eat them
3. I will cook them in the cold frame, long before they've grown big enough for cooking
4. Some other killer I've yet to experience
OR we will get lucky and have beautiful rainbow chard in a month.
Stay tuned.
In the cold frame. Fedco delux lettuce mix, chioggia beets, arugula. Seeds dropped in today.
Found the first crocus blooms the same day we heard the first spring peepers down at the Boal mansion. Yay!
