It was a busy day today with many transplants going into the garden including alyssum, amaranthus, calendula, marigolds, statice, cosmos, queen Anne’s lace, wildflowers, and even corn flowers. I also had a busy day Thursday picking all the lettuce that I could. (more…)
Now that some of my lettuce sprouts have started to pop through the soil soon it will be time to remove some of them and leave only one plant per pot.
I like to wait as long as possible so that I can just do all of them at the same time. This year it looks like that will not happen and will have to do each pot periodically due to different sprouting rates. (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…)
I am now getting some more tomatoes that are coming from most of my plants. There are only a couple that don’t have any fruit yet, but they do have flowers which should bring some fruit very soon.
As I can see it looks like I am getting steakhouse tomatoes along with some cherry tomatoes. I am probably getting some Roma tomatoes, but I am not quite certain which ones they are. I would say in about a week I should know if I have any Roma tomatoes growing. (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…)
