It's been an amazingly beautiful spring here, crazy warm, madly sunny and just plain "unseasonable" I love it. The wee garden is growing in size as well as in greenness, the sproutlings are moving right along and geez, I feel all green thumby! Which of course means I haven't been beading much at all...I think I've decided good weather trumps the bjp. Sorry bjp friends, but this sort of weather happens about never. Ok, maybe that's exaggerating...about once a decade. AND, I'm lucky enough to be in one of the most beautiful towns in Alaska this spring.
This is the indoor outdoor thermometer by my kitchen sink...99 is the temperature it registered right outside my back door. Ok, the spot is totally sheltered and sun reflects off of two walls, but still!
This is parsley. I have been informed by someone who knows
everything that I shouldn't have been able to sprout it in such a short time, and that it's really really hard to grow. Mmm, don't tell the sprout that it shouldn't be there, k? It's surrounded by seaweed...our little coastal secret to gardening miracles. ...the magic parsely came up before I got the seaweed, btw.
This is the original raised bed with all store bought soil and compost, there are peas along the left side and broccoli down the middle, carrots on the far end and leafy stuff (spinach, kale and lettuce) along the right side. The plastic on the left drapes over the hoops at night. The buckets on the top right have potatoes in them...wonder if they're gonna sprout.
Here is the original bed on the left and the latest bed on the right. The rocks between? (oh my aching back) came from the new bed. There were more of them, but I put the biggest ones in the chicken wire baskets that make up the fence posts for the compost pile. Holy crap, I think the rock to soil ratio was 3:1...yeah 3 rock to 1 soil. I mixed the native soil with the closest thing to decent store bought soil that is available here today...miracle grow brand "organic natural". I read the ingredients and it sounds ok...but I don't really trust Miracle Grow not to alter dirt in some nasty way. The True Value (dirt store) didn't have the Whitney Farms dirt... we'll see if I grow frighteningly huge plants in the new bed.
Here's the over view...old bed has the hoops, new bed is in front, potatoes in the buckets next to old bed, blue rubber maid tub is full of seaweed, the crossed hoops are over the pea patch and the shabby green box with nothing showing has cabbage and spinach sprouts in it. Oh geez, what if all this stuff actually grows??
This is the indoor outdoor thermometer by my kitchen sink...99 is the temperature it registered right outside my back door. Ok, the spot is totally sheltered and sun reflects off of two walls, but still!
This is parsley. I have been informed by someone who knows everything that I shouldn't have been able to sprout it in such a short time, and that it's really really hard to grow. Mmm, don't tell the sprout that it shouldn't be there, k? It's surrounded by seaweed...our little coastal secret to gardening miracles. ...the magic parsely came up before I got the seaweed, btw.
This is the original raised bed with all store bought soil and compost, there are peas along the left side and broccoli down the middle, carrots on the far end and leafy stuff (spinach, kale and lettuce) along the right side. The plastic on the left drapes over the hoops at night. The buckets on the top right have potatoes in them...wonder if they're gonna sprout.
Here is the original bed on the left and the latest bed on the right. The rocks between? (oh my aching back) came from the new bed. There were more of them, but I put the biggest ones in the chicken wire baskets that make up the fence posts for the compost pile. Holy crap, I think the rock to soil ratio was 3:1...yeah 3 rock to 1 soil. I mixed the native soil with the closest thing to decent store bought soil that is available here today...miracle grow brand "organic natural". I read the ingredients and it sounds ok...but I don't really trust Miracle Grow not to alter dirt in some nasty way. The True Value (dirt store) didn't have the Whitney Farms dirt... we'll see if I grow frighteningly huge plants in the new bed.
Here's the over view...old bed has the hoops, new bed is in front, potatoes in the buckets next to old bed, blue rubber maid tub is full of seaweed, the crossed hoops are over the pea patch and the shabby green box with nothing showing has cabbage and spinach sprouts in it. Oh geez, what if all this stuff actually grows??
5 comments:
Wow. Just wow. What a fabulous start!
Thanks Dulcey...I hope it's enough for the year, but I'm sure I'll add on and on, lol!
If you keep going at this rate, you're going to need a chest freezer. :)
Seaweed who knew!! I love good ideas to help with my gardening but there is no seaweed around here only weeds!! and they don't help!!
Yeah, all the ladies who garden are giving me advice and the top of the list for each of them is seaweed. No need to rinse it here, our sea water isn't that salty.
I love having their advice...all mom like and stuff!
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