It was supposed to be rainy all weekend but yesterday was just overcast and today is actually quite nice. A little humid, but nice.
Because I thought it was going to rain all weekend I harvested the ginger and set the tubers out on the lawn to get washed. Since it didn't rain I washed them up as best I could and set them out to dry a bit. I'll set some aside to replant and grow more, but use the rest. I chopped some up into my saute last night.
Yesterday I did some yard work in the morning and harvested in the afternoon. I harvested some more okra, eggplant, bunching onions, yard-long beans, kale, and collards. I also thinned out some lettuce and Chinese cabbage and the thinnings are usable at this stage. The bok choy and lettuce I planted last weekend are coming up and will need their first thinning in a week or so.
Today I planted the following:
Okra - Clemson Spineless #80
Green beans - Contender (a bush type)
Watermelon - Sugar Baby
Cantaloupe - Top Mark
Squash - Kabocha
I also started the following in pots for later transplanting:
Sweet Pepper - Fushimi
Tomato - Roma VFN
Tomatillo - Purple de Milpa
The yakon tubers I potted up last week are just beginning to start growing and I should be able to transplant them into the garden in a month or so. The papaya seedling will need separating soon into individual pots.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
February 7, 2011
It started raining on Sunday and has rained off and on through today (it's raining right now). So, far, in the last two days, I've had about 2.75 inches. It's been a nice steady rain so it's soaking in.
Before the rain I got the lawn mowed and weeds pulled. In between rainfalls I harvested some carrots, kale, turnips, okra, bunching onions, papaya, Swiss chard, long beans, lettuce, fennel bulbs and some herbs (sage, basil, dill, shiso, rosemary and cilantro).
I pulled up the yakon I planted a few months ago. I had started it from cuttings and only one produced tubers for further propagation. It didn't produce any of the edible tubers this time but since you aren't really supposed to start yakon from cuttings, the tubers I got from this harvest are a good start I shouldn't really have counted on. I separated the propagation tubers and planted them in pots to get them started. I'll put them in the garden once they've started growing a bit.
The rain slowed enough today for me to get some seeds into the ground. I planted the following:
Collards - Georgia
Kale - Toscano
Bok Choy - White Stem Pechay
Lettuce - Anuenue
Lettuce - Natividad
Spinach - Bloomsdale Long-standing
Cilantro
Yesterday I planted some seedlings of Swiss Chard - Rainbow around the one Swiss chard plant I have in the garden. The one I have has white stems and veins so I planted some red and orange-stemmed plants just to mix it up a bit.
The collards and kale I planted about a year ago are still growing just fine and producing enough for my needs, but I put in the new seeds because they are bound to get too tall or stop producing sooner or later and I want to have a steady supply.
Before the rain I got the lawn mowed and weeds pulled. In between rainfalls I harvested some carrots, kale, turnips, okra, bunching onions, papaya, Swiss chard, long beans, lettuce, fennel bulbs and some herbs (sage, basil, dill, shiso, rosemary and cilantro).
I pulled up the yakon I planted a few months ago. I had started it from cuttings and only one produced tubers for further propagation. It didn't produce any of the edible tubers this time but since you aren't really supposed to start yakon from cuttings, the tubers I got from this harvest are a good start I shouldn't really have counted on. I separated the propagation tubers and planted them in pots to get them started. I'll put them in the garden once they've started growing a bit.
The rain slowed enough today for me to get some seeds into the ground. I planted the following:
Collards - Georgia
Kale - Toscano
Bok Choy - White Stem Pechay
Lettuce - Anuenue
Lettuce - Natividad
Spinach - Bloomsdale Long-standing
Cilantro
Yesterday I planted some seedlings of Swiss Chard - Rainbow around the one Swiss chard plant I have in the garden. The one I have has white stems and veins so I planted some red and orange-stemmed plants just to mix it up a bit.
The collards and kale I planted about a year ago are still growing just fine and producing enough for my needs, but I put in the new seeds because they are bound to get too tall or stop producing sooner or later and I want to have a steady supply.
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