Now it is mid march and it is time to get as many seeds into containers as possible starting with springtime crops in the beginning. Later I will start to plant others such as tomatoes, melons, and much more. At the meantime I need to get my spring seeds at least started and when it is time to put them outside for hardening purposes I will then get others seeds indoors potted.
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I haven’t harvested much this season at the moment, but there are many more things that are getting ready for harvest time. Tomatoes are producing flowers, beans are climbing the ropes, lettuce is flourishing, and broccoli is next on the list. It is almost the peak of garden season and in about a month I should be harvesting the bulk of the fruits of my labor. (more…)
The Winter season went by quite fast and it is already time to begin planting indoors. This year rather than planting spinach indoors I have decided on beginning with lettuce instead.
I still will be growing spinach, but instead of starting them indoors I will just plant them directly outside when it is time to do so. I have also decided to plant all four types of lettuce. (more…)
So far I have been picking lettuce both Ruby glow and iceberg, but today I finally got to pick something new for the season. The very first zucchini of 2016 was recorded this morning in my gardening journal. It weighed three pounds and looks to be used within the next couple of days.
I also picked the most amount of leaves this morning from my iceberg lettuce patch. My Ruby glow hybrid looks like it is going to seed very soon. It is not surprising since these plants do not like the heat and it has been very warm for them over the past couple of weeks. (more…)
Today was a good day to do another harvest of my iceberg lettuce. Many of the lower leaves have reached the peak of how big they were going to get and this is when I like to pick them. I picked several leaves and most of them were very large which I am happy about.
Today made a perfect day to pick them due to the rain they received early this morning. I like to pick them after a rain because this will help the plant grow more leaves after I pick the ones that are ready right now. (more…)
I have been pretty much weeding the entire garden this week and I wanted to wait until I completed that before writing another post, but instead I will give you a quick update on the garden instead.
I started with picking some of my Ruby glow lettuce earlier in the week and that was very exciting since last year I didn’t get as much as I would have liked. The first harvest I had from them yielded me 65 leaves. This is just short from my iceberg lettuce harvest. (more…)
