Every Day's Planting Day


We've been busy here - one day at a time to get our market garden up and running. Yesterday I brought home some tomatoes and peppers (yellow pear tomatoes and sweet banana peppers), planting them (plus some eggplant I had hardening off) in three of the the five new beds in the front garden. Since they all have row covers on them I planted half of one row with mesclun to see how big the difference is between one uncovered and one give a bit more pampering. We shall see. The spinach, some mesclun, and peas are all up and running, and though very slow, the brassicas are starting to perk up thanks to all this rain. The soil in there is nice and rich already so I don't think it is an issue of poor nutrients, but I'm sure a mulch of some aged chicken straw or goat bedding wouldn't hurt when I can get to that. We're on schedule for scallions, greens, and probably radishes at the first market of the season, so along with eggs and seedlings (tomatoes and purple basil/green basil/italian parsley) we should be ok.

Today I brought home some more tomatoes (Rutgers and Mr. Stripey) and we put those in, and Gi and I headed over to the feed store for onion sets and white and red seed potatoes, now cut up and curing in the barn for tomorrow. There were a whole mess of chicks in, and our brooder is still up and running with some older chicks, so why not? We picked up 2 Silver Wynnedottes, 2 RIR, and 2 Buff Orps. (The older chicks still in there seem to be treating the younger ones pretty well, so far so good)

I'll be 27 on the 27th, and E has coined this birthday week - so far, a very good one! Monday the bees gave me an ingenious honey "device" - you open the top to let air in, and honey pours out the bottom - close it, and no drips! Today Harri and Rip gave me "Simply in Season" the seasonal/local cookbook from the more with less series. Hooray!

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Posted: Tue - April 25, 2006 at 09:42 PM        

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