This is what's up,
down in the ground.
On May 1, I transplanted the first set of tomatoes into the garden.
My Lady Friend helped me construct a new row cover. As I said at the time, "This works out so much better with two people." Everything was even, contending with the wind wasn't as exasperating, there's that third or fourth hand available to hold something down... Good, good, good.
In the second photo, you see a Siberian tomato plant that I grew inside, as well as a pair of tomatillo plants grown from seed that I saved in 2007. Out of frame and under the plastic, there is another Sib and an "ugly" tomato plant, the latter also grown from '07 seed. I picked up the SIberian seeds at the Seedy Sunday swap.
Yesterday (May 4), I put in the smaller plants that I started in March. (The larger plants were sown in February.) The young transplants include tomatillo, a yellow-fruited tomato variety, and an as-yet-unidentified tomato that sprang up from soil that I used to pot a Datura.
I also transplanted a huckleberry plant, some ashwagandha, and tender, little ground cherry and sunberry plants. Those last two are in what My Lady Friend refers to as "the wayback," the line of trees and wild plants that screen the yard from the road.
There's quite a bit growing back there, also. I scattered lots of poppy seed out there in February, but it seems that all of it transmutated into garlic mustard -- except in one area, which will become a poppy forest in June. I cleared half of the garlic mustard shoots and rebroadcast seed, this time using buckwheat, millet and quinoa. There are also deliberate plantings of onion, blessed thistle, various mustards and leaf vegetables, a little corn, the odd strawberry, some plantain, heal-all and lupine that I rescued from the lawn, and some peas.
And of course, the beautiful but deadly Daturas.
Anyhow, back in the actual garden, I want to point out some of the vegetables. The first bed contains radish, turnip, mustard greens, spinach, peas and lots of "extras" that I threw in to fill in the gaps. I thought for awhile that the peas weren't going to come up, but now they have. I've thinned half of the bed, but I still have some work to do on the north-facing side. I've been a little hesitant because I don't want to pull out too many of the beets and onions that I planted at the end of March.
The last photo shows one of the short rows of corn that I planted on April 28. I used seed from blue, rainbow and red varieties. Yes, that mean I'll have cross-pollinated plants, but I'm just going to keep the seed for myself. I just wanted to see how the plants will do when sown early. I also want to watch the variety of colors and sizes develop during the season.
My Lady Friend helped me construct a new row cover. As I said at the time, "This works out so much better with two people." Everything was even, contending with the wind wasn't as exasperating, there's that third or fourth hand available to hold something down... Good, good, good.
In the second photo, you see a Siberian tomato plant that I grew inside, as well as a pair of tomatillo plants grown from seed that I saved in 2007. Out of frame and under the plastic, there is another Sib and an "ugly" tomato plant, the latter also grown from '07 seed. I picked up the SIberian seeds at the Seedy Sunday swap.
Yesterday (May 4), I put in the smaller plants that I started in March. (The larger plants were sown in February.) The young transplants include tomatillo, a yellow-fruited tomato variety, and an as-yet-unidentified tomato that sprang up from soil that I used to pot a Datura.
I also transplanted a huckleberry plant, some ashwagandha, and tender, little ground cherry and sunberry plants. Those last two are in what My Lady Friend refers to as "the wayback," the line of trees and wild plants that screen the yard from the road.
There's quite a bit growing back there, also. I scattered lots of poppy seed out there in February, but it seems that all of it transmutated into garlic mustard -- except in one area, which will become a poppy forest in June. I cleared half of the garlic mustard shoots and rebroadcast seed, this time using buckwheat, millet and quinoa. There are also deliberate plantings of onion, blessed thistle, various mustards and leaf vegetables, a little corn, the odd strawberry, some plantain, heal-all and lupine that I rescued from the lawn, and some peas.
And of course, the beautiful but deadly Daturas.
Anyhow, back in the actual garden, I want to point out some of the vegetables. The first bed contains radish, turnip, mustard greens, spinach, peas and lots of "extras" that I threw in to fill in the gaps. I thought for awhile that the peas weren't going to come up, but now they have. I've thinned half of the bed, but I still have some work to do on the north-facing side. I've been a little hesitant because I don't want to pull out too many of the beets and onions that I planted at the end of March.
The last photo shows one of the short rows of corn that I planted on April 28. I used seed from blue, rainbow and red varieties. Yes, that mean I'll have cross-pollinated plants, but I'm just going to keep the seed for myself. I just wanted to see how the plants will do when sown early. I also want to watch the variety of colors and sizes develop during the season.
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