today’s sowing
Peas (shelling), Strike Peas (snap), Sugar Snap I planted them inside. I could have put them outside as my pea bed is nicely thawed now. I just wanted to try some inside in paper bags. After I planted, my Mom read this post and reminded me to start some peas for her. I think these will all be for her. I’ll plant my own peas tomorrow in the garden. My mom’s garden has not been snow shoveled and last I looked (Wednesday) was under at least a foot of snow.…
sowing tomatoes (all my favorites)
Indoor sowing: Broccoli, Artwork Tomato, Cherokee Purple Tomato, Beefsteak Tomato, Sungold Tomato, Pink Beauty Tomato, Giant Belgium Tomato, Mortgage Lifter Tomato, Brandywine Tomato, Huge Lemon Oxheart Tomato, 1884
today’s sowing
Beets, Lutz Beets, Merlin Beets, Chioggia Beets, Blankoma Tomato (paste), Cordova Tomato (paste), San Marzano Tomato (paste), San Marzano Gigante 3 Tomato (paste), Stump of the World Tomato (paste), Opalka Tomato (paste), Nova Tomato (paste), Polish Linguisa Tomato (paste), Heinz 2653
today’s planting
Varieties planted: Basil, Eleonora (Downy Mildew resistant) Basil, Superbo Basil, Dolce Fresca Broccoli, Diplomat (a few plants, a second planting) Chives, New Bolt Chives, Garlic Geisha Oregano, Cleopatra Pepper, (jalepeno) Emerald Fire Pepper,Flaming Flare Pepper, Pretty N Sweet Pepper, Ancho 211 Pepper, Bell ACE Pepper, Thai Hot Tomato, Mountain Merit, for our community garden (LB resistant) Tomato, Polish Linguisa Tomato, Carbone Flowers Dianthus, Jolt Pink Marigold, Durango Marigold, Boy-O-Boy Salvia, Summer Jewel White Notes: – My celeriac that I had given up on are all sprouting today. Yippee! – Broccoli,…
pea planting advice
As I was looking back on my blog for the previous post, I noticed that an old piece of planting advice is: “When red winged blackbird females return and when chickadees build their nests, it is time to plant peas.” I read that a few male male red wings have been spotted around here this past week. I haven’t seen any. I will watch for them and for nesting chickadees.
Happy St Patrick’s Day – turning my pea bed soil
I was able to get a shovel into the soil of my pea bed yesterday. Most of the soil is thawed and draining and the bed is no longer filled with mud. There’s still some ice underneath at the edges. Especially the south edge where snow blocks a bit of sunlight. Some of the ice I was able to break and turn to expose to the sun, a bit of it was too solid for the shovel. I turned under most the scrawny cover of rye grass. I think this…
lonely celeriac sprout
Only one little celeriac seedling has finally sprouted. They are such delicate little sprouts. My seed was from 2012. Not so old, I thought. Wrong. I think I’ve told myself this before – celeriac seed should be fresh. I ordered fresh seed yesterday.
more sowing today – indoors under lights
Parsley, flat leaved Italian Greens, Sandhill’s Mix Kale, Tuscan Kale, Red Russian
sowing
More sowing. I’m not spending all my time out snow shoveling my garden beds. Today I planted: Endive, Tres Fine Escarole, Galia Kale, Winterbor My onion, broccoli and cabbage seedlings are up and seem happy. I’m still waiting on celeriac and eggplant sprouts. They are slow… The planting calendar I’m using this year is: skippy’s calendar app. A friend of mine coded this and it’s written to be simple and only give the information I need for planting. No ads on it. No flashy pictures. If you try it, let…
This is a journal of my vegetable gardens. Skippy thinks the garden is his, even though I do all the work. We're located near Boston, in USDA zone 6. I have bees, chickens, fruit trees and berry bushes, too. I use all sustainable organic methods and strive to grow all of my family's vegetables myself. -Kathy
weeks and counting until my last spring frost
My garden this week
Skippy’s vegetable of the month – Egyptian walking onions!
