Late April/Early May there was lots going on in the garden. Lily fritillaria (above) bloomed, daffoils came and went...
Winter Sowing cartons were opened up, and in some cases transplanted. Everything that went in did pretty well (bloomsdale spinach, rocky top lettuce mix, rainbow chard, mache, anise hyssop, foxglove, and white poppies) except: red poppies, purple/white poppies, sweet peas (both cascadia and sugar magnolia tendril), and I think the giant red mustard got fried.
The red mustard that failed in winter sowing, I had better from indoor seed starting that happens in March & April. The indoor spinach came out
terrible, but the winter sown spinach came out much better. And the missing sweet peas, I just direct sowed in the garden in late April and it started coming up in early May.
Indoor-grown seedling get repotted into Happy Frog potting soil once they have their first or second set of true leaves...which led to an absolute surplus of tomatoes. I think I'm only going to keep 2 chocolate cherry tomato, 2 purple Cherokee tomato, 2 Amish paste tomato, and 2 long purple eggplant. There was a second batch of seed starting for the nasturtium, basil, butternut, blue hubbard, grey zucchini, green scallop, and acorn bush squashes.
I put the extra seedlings in peat pots for sharing with others, and immediately started hardening them off to make room for the next batch of seedlings that need to be potted up (and take more space!).
Tomatoes and eggplants were moved into the garden undercover May 8, and planted in the ground the next day. A few chilly nights in the ~41-degree zone were predicted, but I risked it with the plants under cover.
And I had my first asparagus May 7!
The garden doesn't look amazing in early spring, but with the leaf mold mulching all the beds and some of the structures being slowly added in...we see progress! Catmint, Meadow Sage, and Johnson's Blue geranium grew tall enough to cover the bare sticks pruned back in autumn. Butterfly bush is just sprouting leaves at its base. Purple sensation & globemaster alliums look like they'll bloom soon, as will the Centaurea montana & chives.
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1 comments:
I'm so impressed! You're going to eat like kings this summer.
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