I LOVE what's happening in the garden! |
Most of the things that I started from seed in trays worked - YAY. However, not all of them survived long enough to make it into the garden - BOO.
Most things that I sowed directly into the garden sprouted - YAY. The deer had an appetite for some of those items - BOO.
All of my tomato and pepper plants survived their transplant into the hoop house - YAY. It took forever to see them start to fruit - booooo (Yay)
Now I am starting to get some fall crops into the garden. This is a new thing for us. It never really occurred to me that gardening could actually happen during fall and winter. So we are giving it a try this year. Yesterday we did the carrots seeds (Johnny's Pelleted). I was a little surprised to see that those could take up to 3 weeks to germinate. This week I will be sowing the chinese cabbage and bunching onions. Maybe the onions will do better than the ones that I sowed a couple of months ago - they don't seem to be growing a whole lot.
For most of last week I was just itchin' to dig up some potatoes and see how those turned out...Tom decided it would be okay to do a plant on the end. We got 3 nice size Red Norlands. I'm looking forward to seeing how many Yukons and fingerlings we'll get. Everything went in a little later than usual and so things are finally harvestable. When other people are done with their harvest we'll still be getting a variety of veggies! Especially from the hoop house!
Things are going pretty well right now even with what I feel is a late start. Next year will certainly be much, much better!
Crazy growth in one week! |
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