Asparagus, peas, spinach and lettuce
It was a lovely day to be outside so today was the day I started my vegetable garden. It is April 18 close to 22 celcius.
I gently raked the old maple leaves away from the south end of the vegetable garden. Supposedly maple leaves are toxic and not suppose to be put into your compost or on your garden to rot for that matter but I had them just on the perennial flower part of the vegetable garden. There is big pile of rotting leaves in the nearby field so I broadcast my old 2007 & 08 seeds on top of it then I put the raked up maple leaves on top of that ~ maybe something will come of it ~ whatever.
I turned the soil in an 8 by 4 foot area in the south end of the veggie garden just north of the perennials. I planted in one row, half of spinach (’09 Mr. Fotherhill seeds) and half of mixed lettuces (’10 Morgan and Thompson seeds). Next to that I planted three rounds of Little Knight pea seeds that I dried myself from my pea plants last year ~ these Little Knight seeds are supposedly container friendly and do not need to be staked at all. I did grow them in a container last year and found that they should be staked (so this year I will try it again and use one foot garden fencing to see how that works). The ones I just planted in the garden I put upside down tomato cages as a staking ~ if I remember correctly after I did this last year, I think I told Bob that we will have use regular pea staking in 2010~ oh-well, live and learn that is the whole point of the garden diary.
I had dug up three different asparagus roots so I replanted them in the row next to the peas which is where I have lots of asparagus (I hope).
It was such a treat to see so many big, fat, juicy worms in the area that I was working in today.
Everything got a good watering. What I just listed took me approximately 3.5 hours (noon to 3:30). My knee is fairly tender and I am pretty warn out.
I am going to try to blog each time I am in the garden so I can use this as a reference next 2011 season. I will write a new post when ever I plant new stuff but I will comment on the posting of as a progress report on whatever is already planted.
One of the pea seeds has sprouted but I pushed the seed back down as I could see the whole seed.
Some of the lettuce and spinach is just peeking up slightly.
2010 garden veggies are on the way
Comment by Susan — April 25, 2010 @ 3:44 pm
We had a good rain fall today ~ yay!! I was excited to see if anything in this category has sprouted once it stopped pouring rain and I could take a stroll to the garden. Looks like half of the pea seeds are making their debut along with the spinach and lettuce. Asparagus is still being shy but I think that last year I gave up on them and then all of a sudden I had shoots everywhere and I do mean everywhere because I tilled the garden and obviously spread them around and they still took. I gathered the asparagus roots last fall and put then in a specific spot and yes I will be a little more patience this spring. Once they are done, I will put some sort of a cutting flower there for the shear visual pleasure ~ some tall Zinnias or Snapdrogons or Cosmos ~ nice bouquet flowers.
Comment by Susan — April 27, 2010 @ 8:26 pm
I planted a few more pea seeds where some didn’t come up but for the most part, it looks like a strong crop of peas this year.
I had one Asapargus spear come up - about four inches even. I am so proud of this little spear - I stepped on it as I was planting more pea seeds - jerk! I rinsed it off and ate it - OMG - can you say fabulicious!
Comment by Susan — May 14, 2010 @ 8:47 pm
i love to eat freshly picked lettuce.”~”
Comment by Luca Richards — June 16, 2010 @ 10:43 pm
we always want to put lettuce in our vegetagble salads and vegetable soups.,*:
Comment by Alicia Matthews — July 25, 2010 @ 9:14 am