Well, the carrots just barley and same for the russet potatoes but all the seeds are out of the ground and the transplants are doing very well. I think I’ll need to setup the drip irrigation next weekend because after weeks of lots of rain things are getting a bit dry and container gardening isn’t very forgiving for that.
After no freezing temperatures since March 3, Mother Nature decided to play a little April Fools’ Day prank on us. Temps on April 1 started in the upper 20s and never got over 48. Good Friday, April 2, started the same way but warmed up into the upper 50s and there’s no more temps below 40 in the 15 day forecast so I think it’s onto late spring and summer now.
Trying to show a real progression of the spring crops this year so each week I’m grabbing some pictures and even though I’m posting these on April 3 they are from March 28. Things are moving along well. I added kale this year and will see if that’s worth adding to the annual mix. I’ve also added more crop specific pages with growing tips, links and the Oak Moon growing log for each.
The last photo in this group is of four hazelnuts. After they get a little bigger I’ll move them into a permanent location. Good stuff for people and animals!
And, everything isn’t just working outside. Sunday dinner was bacon wrapped pork tenderloin medallions, roasted asparagus with parmesan cheese and baked potatoes. I should have grabbed the picture after putting all that on the serving plates but hey, by then I was just interested in eating it!
Wow! A miracle happened! I made two posts on the same weekend… don’t get used to it.
Just finished planting the radishes and carrots and cleaned up the garden area so a couple more pictures were in order.
Last weekend I planted the leftover green onion roots after making chicken fried rice and five containers of potatoes, one more than last year. No pictures because half empty 15 gallon grow bags aren’t really very exciting. But this weekend things got going in earnest. Now we have lettuce (red & green romaine, butter crunch & green leaf), spinach and onions (yellow and sweet).
It was actually cold enough last night that I covered the plantings. about 28 when I got up this morning. Tomorrow I’ll get carrot and radish seeds planted and tack down some landscape cloth where I’ll be keeping the containers.
I’m building specific pages to track each vegetable. Makes it easy for me to see how things go across seasons and allows me to store some helpful references for the future. Looking at the yard I may try to get the Deere started tomorrow as well because it’s probably only going to be another week or two before grass cutting gets going.
