I spent an additional two and a half hours working in the garden this afternoon. I worked up and amended the bed next to the extra-long bed I seeded this morning. It is about 3/4 of the length of the one I seeded this morning.
This afternoon I seeded this smaller bed with the following:
-Fava Bean (Extra Precoce A Grano Violetto, a large seeded sweet variety from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, packed for '13)
-Tetue de Nimes Butterhead Lettuce (Burpee '11)
-Burpee Bibb Lettuce '11
-Giant 157 Hybrid Spinach (smooth leaf, Burpee '09)
-Bloomsdale Long-Standing Spinach (savoy leaved, Burpee '11)
-Yellow Flowering Pak Choy (Choy Sum or Chinese Broccoli, Nichols '06)
-Evergreen Hardy White Bunching Onion (Nichols '11)
-Japanese Minowase Daikon Radish (Raphanus sativus, tradewindsfruit.com '10)
-Shogoin Turnip (Brassica rapa var rapa, tradewindsfruit.com '10).
I've been growing a variety of lettuce I mistook for butterhead which is actually a romaine, so today I finally seeded some butterhead and bibb lettuce.
In addition to the seeding I did this morning, this morning and afternoon I also watered those areas of the garden needing it with 35 watering cans full of harvested rainwater.
Tomorrow I have several choices as to what to work on in the garden. I'll likely put the stray leaves and branches from the tre
davecycle ut down yesterday into green waste bins so that I can get to the new area now available for terraced vegetable beds in the front garden. Then I may work on digging up, amending and terracing that area.
Or I may dig up the bed in the back garden that contains Bolivian sunroot, harvest the rest of the sunroot, amend the bed and plant sunroot corms throughout the bed. This is highly likely.
I may weed the back yard asparagus patch (that is somewhat taken over by volunteer raspberry canes and volunteer Everlasting Swiss Chard), and see if there are any baby asparagus spears coming up. The native yellow flowered legume that is growing in the bed now is great for fixing the soil with nitrogen, but it obscures the state of the spears, so I may pull it up to add it to the compost.
I only have 5 bags of compost left, so I may start the day by lining the trunk with plastic and making an early morning run to home depot for another 12-14 bags.
And the weather is due to be fine tomorrow, so I'll undoubtedly need to spend some time watering those areas of the garden which get the most sun this time of year.
This afternoon I seeded this smaller bed with the following:
-Fava Bean (Extra Precoce A Grano Violetto, a large seeded sweet variety from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, packed for '13)
-Tetue de Nimes Butterhead Lettuce (Burpee '11)
-Burpee Bibb Lettuce '11
-Giant 157 Hybrid Spinach (smooth leaf, Burpee '09)
-Bloomsdale Long-Standing Spinach (savoy leaved, Burpee '11)
-Yellow Flowering Pak Choy (Choy Sum or Chinese Broccoli, Nichols '06)
-Evergreen Hardy White Bunching Onion (Nichols '11)
-Japanese Minowase Daikon Radish (Raphanus sativus, tradewindsfruit.com '10)
-Shogoin Turnip (Brassica rapa var rapa, tradewindsfruit.com '10).
I've been growing a variety of lettuce I mistook for butterhead which is actually a romaine, so today I finally seeded some butterhead and bibb lettuce.
In addition to the seeding I did this morning, this morning and afternoon I also watered those areas of the garden needing it with 35 watering cans full of harvested rainwater.
Tomorrow I have several choices as to what to work on in the garden. I'll likely put the stray leaves and branches from the tre
Or I may dig up the bed in the back garden that contains Bolivian sunroot, harvest the rest of the sunroot, amend the bed and plant sunroot corms throughout the bed. This is highly likely.
I may weed the back yard asparagus patch (that is somewhat taken over by volunteer raspberry canes and volunteer Everlasting Swiss Chard), and see if there are any baby asparagus spears coming up. The native yellow flowered legume that is growing in the bed now is great for fixing the soil with nitrogen, but it obscures the state of the spears, so I may pull it up to add it to the compost.
I only have 5 bags of compost left, so I may start the day by lining the trunk with plastic and making an early morning run to home depot for another 12-14 bags.
And the weather is due to be fine tomorrow, so I'll undoubtedly need to spend some time watering those areas of the garden which get the most sun this time of year.

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