Friday, April 19, 2013

More Planting

Today is supposed to be a beautiful day. But we will be getting a cold patch next week. Even a day in the 40Fs. I wanted to get all my hardy plants out before the weekend. And I succeeded. All the smaller Asian greens and kohlrabi are planted in one bed. I didn't have enough plants to fill the whole bed which I expected. So I sowed more baby boc choy seed. This bed needs to be empty on June 1st for my sweet potatoes. They might not get full size by then, but they ought to be close.

I planted all my herbs except the basil. I have a bed where I put my miscellaneous greens. The parsley, winter savory and the sweet marjoram were put there along with the red celery. I had a lot of the bed planted in mache. Most of it was Golden Mache from Michelle ages ago. It grew well, but got way too leaf burned over the winter. So it was just weeded out and composted. But the regular mache (above from Emily) grew well and produced. I'm not picking much as I want the plants you see above to go to seed for next year.

I got a lot of little things done like weeding the spinach bed (finally done). I also spent time standing and staring at one spot along the basement foundation. I'm wondering if I ought to put in a tree to espallier. I've been growing sunflowers along the back. The cilantro is allowed to self seed there in the middle. And I have self seeding sweet alyssum along the front that grows into the brick path. I haven't been happy with the sunflowers of late. So I'm going back and forth right now. Apple tree, sunflowers, apple tree, sunflowers.

Now I just have this partial flat left which is flowers, basil, and a few extras. It has been outside during the day and inside at night. It might have to go back under the lights when the cold hits next week.

8 comments:

  1. I love sunflowers so vote for those! lol Our cold weather hit today. A few snow flurries too. I hope my cabbage and strawberries will be okay that I planted. Suppose to be cold weather crops I guess. Your gardening so far looks wonderful! Nancy

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  2. It's cold here today, in the 40's, so I guess that it the weather you will be getting. I've always wanted to espalier something, but so far I haven't done it. Now I really don't have a good spot to do it anymore.

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  3. I love espallier trees! I guess it takes a bit of patience to grow them, but they are pretty cool.

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  4. I hope you do a apple espalier .... I would love to have one and I have a good south facing wall that would be a perfect spot. Since I don't know the first thing about espalier, I could follow along as you developed yours.(big smiley face here!)
    We're supposed to have a light frost here in Knoxville tonight so I've covered my tender plants. I sort of jumped the gun and planted 4 Mortgage Lifter tomatoes.

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  5. It all looks pretty great. Our apple espalier is wonderful, and has been through a lot of abuse (thank you, children) and still does okay. Yours would be lovely, I'm sure.

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  6. Your plants are looking really healthy and beautiful. Isn't it nice to be getting more of them into the garden now?

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  7. Your planting sounds lovely. Trying to restrain myself after a few sunny weekends from planting too much, as I know we have cold weather to come yet too.

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