A good week for nature. The brown of winter is gone, and everything is green -- fields, leaves, weeds. We've already cut our grass twice.
We're stuck in a rainy spell. Heard what may have been the first thunder of the season today, and the dog has remembered that he's afraid of thunder.
My apple tree hasn't blossomed yet. Others in town have, but I'm just a bit higher than town.
I planted potatoes today. Felt good to finally put something in the ground. I bought seed potatoes a month or so ago and experimented with cutting them into pieces to see if they'd "greensprout". They didn't. Instead, they shriveled. So I spritzed them. Then they molded. So I put those in the compost pile and bought more seed potatoes.
In the greenhouse, about 25 tomato plants that have sprouted. They're much smaller than what the nurseries are offering, but I'm pretty confident they'll eventually give fruit. Nothing else has thrived. The peas seem to have rotted in the soil, so I'll just plant new ones in the ground as soon as it stops raining. The lettuce in the hydroponic system is half-heartedly trying to gain some momentum. One broccoli came up, and no flowers or surviving peppers. Old seeds, maybe?
Needing extra days in the week to get ahead of the happy weeds...
Just got my potatoes in the ground too, plus spinach and carrots -- I'm keeping a plastic sheet over the bed because it's still in the 30's every morning, but the days are glorious!
ReplyDeleteI used some kitchen potatoes (reds) that sprouted, which I've done in past years. Hope they'll do ok again. Plan to go to the nursery soon in search of some purple potatoes. Alot of people have had good luck with them here...