robin in the snow
I think every year I post a photo of a robin waiting for spring. This is how I feel too.
sweet potato sprouts
I have three sweet potato varieties sprouting: Beauregard, Jewel and Hannah. I am keeping them at 80*F, as they don’t seem to grow at all at cooler temperatures. Still, they are growing slowly.
2013 variety list
Basil: Genovese, Italian Large Leaf, Lemon Aromatic Beets: Chiogga Guardsmark, Early Wonder, Merlin, Red Detroit Broccoli: Diplomat Carrots: Carnival Mix, Mokum Celeriac: Brilliant Eggplant: Black King, Kamo, Tiger Endive: Galia, Tres Fine Kale: Tuscan, Winterbor Leeks, Giant Musselburgh Lettuce: Oaky Red, Prizehead Marigolds: Burpee’s Best Mix, Cottage Red Mexican Sunflower: Torch Onions: Frontier (did not sprout), White Wing, Pontiac, Walla Walla Parsley: Single Italian Peas: Sugar Sprint Pepper: Amelia’s Cayenne, Ancho 211, Annaheim, Canary Bell Sweet, Costa Rican Sweet, Jalepeno, Nardello, NuMex Joe E Parker, Quadrato Rosso D’Asti (Sweet Red),…
collapsing cold frame
Today I checked my cold frame and saw it is collapsing. 🙁 The left side of it has bowed out and the top panels are sinking in under a full load of wet snow. (I’ll add a photo here tomorrow.) It had 3 feet of snow fall on it over the weekend – and then we had rain. The frame is a few years old now and was not designed to bear weight. I should have shoveled a path to it and cleared the panels of snow right away –…
tiny new onion sprouts!!
I found a first onion sprout today. Yippee!! I guess one of the reasons onions and celeriac are planted first is that they sprout slow and they grow slow. I’m wishing I had sowed a few broccolis just to get things going! This evening, I used a toothpick and checked around in the onion pots for sprouts. Since I like to use up my old seed, and onion seed doesn’t last long, I often have trays that don’t sprout. The Pontiac onions are sprouting, but apparently not Frontier, Ruby Ring,…
walking in the snow
Today Skippy and I walked our 2 mile route around the big pond (Fresh Pond in Cambridge). Thankfully the path was plowed nicely. It had 4 ft edges and 3 ft of soft snow beyond. Skippy tried to explore off path, but sunk in to his belly. So we stuck to the path. Lots of people and dogs were walking this route too. Skippy met lots of his buddies on this first bright sunny day after the “blizzard of 2013”. The sledding hill at the east side of the Pond…
2013 garden plans
While snowed in, I worked on my Garden Plan for the coming season. Its just a guide for me, and I don’t follow it to the letter. The most important parts of the Plan are making sure the locations of the potatoes and roots are rotated. Also, reminding me that there is a limit to the amount of space I have and I shouldn’t go too crazy with planting seeds. A couple things I plan to do differently this year: – Move the cucumbers to a bed of their own…
new button
While I was snowed in today, I added a new button to my sidebar. A Facebook LIKE button. Please LIKE this blog!
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!
