Planting In the Rain and Update on Outdoor Garden Plants

Sorry for the long period for a blog post, but I have plenty of things to discuss. This month has brought many rain storms and really windy days and made it difficult to till some of the garden soil and get some spring seeds planted. I finally had a good day to get the soil mixed this week and decided to plant peas, radishes, and sunflowers today even though it was cloudy, rainy, and windy. I couldn’t wait any longer to get these seeds into the ground.

One thirty foot row is good enough to place at lease my radish and pea seeds into the garden. I have found that any more would take up too much room, but luckily these plants do not need extra space for growing. They can easily interplant next to each other depending on your preference and available space.

This year I decided on growing more than one type of radish seeds. I planted my usual cherry belle and a new one called cherry giant. The seeds were much larger with the giant type that I am thinking that these can get a little bit bigger than other types. I will see in a month or two if that is the case.

I also decided on planting some sunflower seeds as well. I have discovered that they can withstand very cool weather and they can be planted around the time that you plant onions or other cool weather seeds. I only planted a short five foot row on the north side of my pea and radish row to prevent them from blocking the sun in the summer.

My rhubarb plants have survived the harsh winter and are looking really well and I might be able to finally pick them this season. I don’t know what I will use them for, but I am sure that I will find something for them. New leaves and new stems are coming along and I can’t wait for another month or so to see how large they will get.

Most of my onions have also begun sprouting and producing a stem which signifies that they have taken to the soil and roots are thriving. With all this rain and cool weather in the month of April this should help them out quite a bit. They thrive in this type of weather and it is always good to get them into totes as soon as possible.

Last but not least are my strawberries which have recovered from the winter temperatures. I removed the straw and it looked like some of the plants didn’t survive, but after a couple of weeks I can see that the crowns are growing new leaves and shoots. All the runners that were transplanted last season looks like they have taken well to the soil.