Hot here to today. Woke up , at the store at 7am ( I hate waiting on lines) and picked up a few things for dinner. Went on a 10 mil bike ride ( first of the season), then spent ,the rest of the day outside in the yard/ garden.
- Bought some seedlings from a nursery yesterday, and got them in the garden today ( Chard, beets, carrots and what I thought were peas, turned out to be snow peas ( note to self: Read the damn labels before buying). Not that I don't like snow peas, I just dont need 12 plants of them. All of the above I started from seed myself. Carrots failed, beets and chard not thriving and the peas that germinated doing well, but ion one row, only about %50 germination which is why I bought more plants to suplement ( or at least I thought I did). Not sure why Im having issues seeding chard the past few years, it used to be one of my easiest most predictable crops to start from seed. Im so poor at carrots and beets, I figured let me try the seedlings. I know or at least have read that the roots can be dedformed if now sown directly in the soil, but I feel I have nothing to lose ( other than a few bucks) and a farm I visited ( and follow ) always posts when they are starting their crops along with a video, and they use seedlings out of cells , so if the pros can do it, so can I.
- I have 2 honeysuckle vines that are at least 4 years old and have never flowered. I butchered them and will be replacing them with passion flower vines ( saw some really nice ones yesterday at the nursery.
- Never got a round to transplanting the tomatoes to larger pots and putting them in the garage to slow them down a bit. Maybe Wednesday. Surprisingly, the peppers I started from seeds are doing really well. First time I ever started peppers from seed.
- Stupid me went against my best instincts and put a bunch of my fig trees outside last week. I belong to a fig group and they were all saying to do it. Well, a bunch suffered leaf damage due to the few cold nights we had. Luckily, Im not too stupid, as I kept a bunch ( including my favorite ones) inside . Probably will start hardening those off in a few weeks ( one has about 20 figs on it already.
-Turned on the sprinklers and inspected them to make sure they were working and set right. Only one by the driveway was broken. Im guessing my wife probably backed over it. Couldn't have been me
- All my potatoes int beds and pots are progressing nicely. Probably about 2 -3 inches high already, strawberries , currants, blueberries, honeyberries all flowering. All fruit trees flowering or flowered already. Go try first 2 deliveries of Mason Bees for the fruit trees.Onions have shown decent growth since planted.
- Screwed up a few of my broccoli plants. Went to spray them with BT to keep the moths/ caterpillars away, and there must have been some kind of soap or oil still in the spray hose, burning a few leaves ( one plant definitely hopeless, the others appear they will survive, but did replace them).
- On Wednesday I'll probably get the last of the seeds started . Beans, squash, melons, okra.
- In two weeks Ill be looking for cukes/ Kirbies
- At the end of May, Ill be keeping my eyes out for Sweet potatoes.
Then the eating game begins .