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Still above ground...
... and digging (in) it.
It's been a full (in many senses) three weeks since last I posted and all I have energy for today is a veg garden update.
Today's weather was perfect for transplanting: cool and cloudy with rain in the forecast. I got almost all the veggie seedlings in: 8 tomatoes (6 in halos, 2 directly in the ground) and 6 each ichiban eggplant and habanero. Maybe this year I'll get harvests instead of dried-out husks from those. Spent a lot of May tweaking the soaker-hose system and it seems to be working better so that should mean a wet year, right?
Yesterday I had my first harvest, a colander's worth of spinach that survived overwintering and supplemented yesterday's dinner. In recent years the garden has gone from frozen to hot in too short a time to get spinach planted in early spring, so late last fall I test-planted leftover old seeds in this year's tomato bed, figuring any survivors would be starting to bolt by tomato-planting time. Shockingly, that's pretty much what happened so I'm hoping to try a better-planned test come fall.
Got back from travel in time to cut the flower stalks off the pre-bolting rhubarb so there might be some to harvest this year. The tarragon is being ridiculous again (one of the few things that liked last year's drought), garlic continues to grow, and the peas and lettuce I planted in late April are doing fine.
It's (a little past) time for a second planting of that last and first plantings of warm-weather crops now that warm weather looks to be the norm. It's been yet another weird (aka new normal) spring, with multiple 30°F high temperature swings within the same week. I don't at all wonder why that is.
So next up are basil, assorted beans, and more cukes (and nasturtiums). I may have some dill coming up, still waiting on the garlic chives to put in an appearance, and am looking forward to a restful rainy Sunday.
(My thanks to the friend who gave me four of their surplus home-grown tomatoes last week, I'm also looking forward to trying the varieties, weather, hornworms, and chipmunks permitting.)
It's been a full (in many senses) three weeks since last I posted and all I have energy for today is a veg garden update.
Today's weather was perfect for transplanting: cool and cloudy with rain in the forecast. I got almost all the veggie seedlings in: 8 tomatoes (6 in halos, 2 directly in the ground) and 6 each ichiban eggplant and habanero. Maybe this year I'll get harvests instead of dried-out husks from those. Spent a lot of May tweaking the soaker-hose system and it seems to be working better so that should mean a wet year, right?
Yesterday I had my first harvest, a colander's worth of spinach that survived overwintering and supplemented yesterday's dinner. In recent years the garden has gone from frozen to hot in too short a time to get spinach planted in early spring, so late last fall I test-planted leftover old seeds in this year's tomato bed, figuring any survivors would be starting to bolt by tomato-planting time. Shockingly, that's pretty much what happened so I'm hoping to try a better-planned test come fall.
Got back from travel in time to cut the flower stalks off the pre-bolting rhubarb so there might be some to harvest this year. The tarragon is being ridiculous again (one of the few things that liked last year's drought), garlic continues to grow, and the peas and lettuce I planted in late April are doing fine.
It's (a little past) time for a second planting of that last and first plantings of warm-weather crops now that warm weather looks to be the norm. It's been yet another weird (aka new normal) spring, with multiple 30°F high temperature swings within the same week. I don't at all wonder why that is.
So next up are basil, assorted beans, and more cukes (and nasturtiums). I may have some dill coming up, still waiting on the garlic chives to put in an appearance, and am looking forward to a restful rainy Sunday.
(My thanks to the friend who gave me four of their surplus home-grown tomatoes last week, I'm also looking forward to trying the varieties, weather, hornworms, and chipmunks permitting.)