Saturday, May 12, 2012

Where is my camera?

If I could find it, I'd post pictures of what we are planting!

The garlic looks fantastic.  It was planted in October, and the green garlic will go out in shares the first week of CSA this season.  Bulbs will be harvested in July.

Onions are coming along.  They were planted from seed in the greenhouse in February and were transplanted into the garden a month ago. We also planted a bushel of little tiny onions (called sets) that will be the earliest bulb onions that we harvest.

Early potatoes were planted about a month ago - they are just poking above ground, though the plants have been growing below ground for some time.  We save a lot of our own seed and also buy quite a bit each year.  Potato 'seed' is potatoes.  You know how they sprout?  That's a new plant.  If you plant the sprouted old potato, it will grow a new plant with 4-8 potatoes.  The rule of harvest is you get 10# from each 1# planted.  Of course soil health, water and rain affect yield.  Last year we planted over a mile of potato rows.  But we didn't have most of them irrigated and had a lower yield.  This year they will all be irrigated.
Another interesting potato fact:  Commercial potatoes are treated to prevent them from sprouting.  I don't know with what, but doesn't that sound like it would take the life and nourishment right out of them?

We have the first large rows of salad mix ready for harvest.

We have the wintered over spinach done with harvest and those plants were pulled out this past week, compost spread, and the ground where they were was tilled.  It was also planted to daikon radishes and salad turnips - all in the same day!  4 more plantings are growing.

Pak choi should be ready for the first week of CSA.
Turnip greens are ready for harvest - we are hoping they hold till the week of the 21st.
Radishes are big enough to eat.

Peas - we have 4 kinds planted, and replanted.  Untreated (no fungicides) pea seed is more vulnerable to rot if the weather conditions aren't perfect.  We got it planted quite early, but then got some wet and cold weather conditions. Plus we think some seed was eaten by birds, earthworms, who knows what else.  The seeds  were live nourishing 'food' for what ever feasted on it.

We also have broccoli, cabbage, scallions, arugula, beets, head lettuces, carrots, celeriac, kohlrabi planted in the ground outside.  And the greenhouse is still full!  Sweet and hot pepper plants, + / - 800 tomato plants, celery, the first planting of summer squash and melons.  We have many more head lettuce, broccoli and cabbage plants growing.

Just a sampling...


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