Waiting...

After waiting for the weather to cooperate, today was the day to plant.  The weather has warmed and the temperature at night is staying above 40. 

Tomatoes will need warmer weather, but there were several things to be planted today.

In the front yard box: rainbow Swiss chard, marigolds, red beets, golden beets, kohlrabi, rutabaga, carrots, and turnips.

In the back yard box: peas, arugula, marigolds, spinach, and lettuce.

The newest herbs (in the ground): fennel and dill.  The cilantro made it through the colder weather as did the chives and parsley.

In the other ground plot: zucchini, yellow squash and crook neck squash.

Dog House Update

This just in....

The dirt around the dog house has been turned over and seed has been scattered.  If you remember from the last blog, I had old seed from last year that I dumped into a ziploc.

I sprinkled the fresh dirt with all the old seed and added a sunflower mixture of new seed. To cover the seeds, I lightly raked the area.

 Again...this is an experiment.  :)

Dog House

In the back corner of the yard, sits a dog house.  It's cute, but the area is usually overrun by weeds by mid May.

As I started cleaning out my seeds from last year, I thought it was a shame that so many seeds did not get planted. 

Hmmm....


Why not try to plant them?  Milk is good for several days past the expiration and eggs for several weeks.  Could these seeds grow?


Instead of the dog house corner being overrun by weeds, wouldn't it be a sight to see sunflowers, arugula, carrots, peas, radishes, onions, yellow tomatoes and zucchini overrunning the area instead?


Who knows.  I may spend hours turning the dirt, loosening it and then adding nutrients only to have the weeds grow even taller this year.


As I sit dumping each expired seed pack into a Ziploc bag, I couldn't help but wonder - what if the seeds grow?

Cold weather = dead greens.

I can hardly believe it.  The temperature dropped this week and the lettuce and collards are looking mighty sick.  Also, the parsley and cilantro are not looking much better. 

Guess I will wait and see...or we all will wait and see.