I tried planting these cool weather crops in soil blocks a few weeks ago and they all DIED. I’m keeping these freshly planted ones indoors until August. Then, when the weather cools down, I’ll let them play outside with their friends.
Yesterday I planted my multi-sown beet starts and some Oregon Peas. It feels great to be able to put some things in the garden.
I also planted carrots in a self watering bucket. I’m hoping those are successful, because up until now, 100% of my carrot attempts have failed. Always hopeful.
Then today I labeled my herb garden. Half is culinary herbs and the other half are medicinal.
A couple days ago we got a male duck on loan from our neighbors. We might have ducklings sometime.
Heather seeded beets and carrots today.
I harvested the last of my peas, and I’m going to remove them from the pods and dry them. I pulled out the plants, too. In their place, I planted (from west to east) rainbow mix carrots, danvers half-long carrots (north), chantenay carrots (south), some marigolds by the tomato plant, bloomsdale spinach (north), cylindra beet (south), calabrese broccoli (north), and chioggia beet (south). I also tried running some twine around my tomato plant on the east end to get some of the tomatoes off the ground. In doing so, we accidentally harvested some green tomatoes.
