a sunny day of garden work
What a difference a day makes. We had a lot of sun today and it warmed the midday temperatures to the upper 40s. Skippy and I did several hours of gardening (for Skippy that means sleeping in the sun). I removed some 10 yr old raspberry plants (that didn’t produce much for the last few years) from my first raised bed and prepared the soil for planting peas and lettuce seed. I didn’t get the seeds planted today, but I will very soon. The black plastic mulched bed (bed numer…
Easter pansies
I am one of the first on my street to plant pansies this year. One of my favorite flowers. I bought a flat of multi-colored black-faced pansies this year. I always love pansy planting day. I raked the all winter debris out of my front yard gardens and planted the pansies in groups – six plants per clump. They are scattered in between the tulip and alchemilla sprouts, tucked under the yew and rhododendron bushes.
baby chili pepper sprouts
My peppers have just started to get little second leaves. I’m thinking about transplanting them someday in the near future. There’s only about 50 million of them. Today I moved them to a south facing window (where they have a view of the vegetable garden and lots of sun). Capsicum
cold soil
These are photos of my garden this morning on the left and this afternoon on the right. Our weather is having a problem. Not really snow, its slush. This morning I checked my soil temperature. 36F in one area, 40F in another. Bbbrrr. I’ve read that peas shouldn’t go in until the soil temperature is 50F! So I’m trying to be patient. Yesterday I turned the soil in one bed, where the peas will go. It is still frozen down at about 6-8 inches. It felt like my shovel kept…
pepper sprouts
Skippy is keeping an eye on my pepper sprouts. I don’t know what I’m going to do with all these pepper plants. But, I do know what I’d like to do with the peppers: POPPERS! I’m bookmarking the recipe at Danielle’s Florida garden here. Capsicum
April showers
The April rain is very peaceful – and wet. My vegetable garden is fully thawed now, but working the soil and planting peas will have to wait for drier weather, which may be towards the end of the week.
signs of activity at local Community Garden
It looks like gardeners have been working the soil in a couple of plots at the Cambridge Community Gardens. Two of about 50 plots have freshly turned soil. No plants yet, except for the little yellow anemone tucked along the side of one plot. communitygardeningBelmont Victory Garden
the seeds arrived!
OOoopps! I worried too soon. In today’s mail my seeds arrived! That made my day. I opened the blue pod Capucijner peas to see what they look like. They are an interesting range of colors. My package labeled 15 seeds had 32 seeds. Good deal. Opening the seed order was wonderful because I ordered some dukat dill and the seeds are very aromatic. My dining room smells like fresh dill now. I like to scatter some dill plants around the garden for the same reason – they smell so nice.…
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!
