I got some tilling done yesterday which is mainly for the spring plants that I will be placing outside. Lettuce is one of those plants and the rest are going to be from seed. I will plant seeds of peas, radish, celery, and potatoes. (more…)
It has been a little while since my last post, but I promise that I will not go that long without writing an update again. This month is getting a little busy and being behind at least a couple weeks I will have to get my garden going as quickly as possible.
I first started with picking spinach leaves at the beginning of the week with most of my plants producing large leaves. This season I wanted to grow them longer before I started cutting the leaves and it definitely was worth it. (more…)
Like every season I always do a partial tilling for my cold weather plants like spinach and lettuce. I will do a full tilling later on in the season around May or late April depending on the weather.
Today was windy but still warm enough to get some work done in the garden. I am hoping to plant all or the majority of my spinach tomorrow if I have enough time. I have about 22 plants and that should take only a couple of hours to complete. (more…)
It has been a little while since I last made a post, but it has been quite busy nevertheless. First of all I finally completed tilling the garden this evening and it took quite a few days to do this. It took much longer than usual and that was mostly because I was picking up many large rocks in the garden while I was tilling. This took some time to do.
I was hoping to be completed by last week and start planting many of my plants into the ground. That way this week all I would have to do is begin planting seeds that are sown into the ground directly. This includes corn, beans, and carrots. (more…)
Some good news on the onion front they have begun to start sprouting this week and I noticed this today. They probably began sprouting earlier in the week, but I didn’t have a look at them until today. Both the onions in totes and the ones in the garden are both sprouting.
I wasn’t so sure how long it would take for the ones in the ground to begin growing because it is much different soil than what is in the totes. I am glad that they have started growing at the same time and I can easily compare their growth rates through the summer. (more…)
It has been quite a long time since I wrote a post on my blog and since then it has been a busy week for gardening. With the weather getting much warmer and all my plants are enjoying the outside weather it was time to get started with tilling the garden.
I usually start tilling when the weather gets consistently warmer and usually is in the beginning of May. It all depends mainly on the weather especially if there has been much rain. I don’t like to till when the ground is too wet and is better to wait for the soil to dry a little bit. A moist layered soil is fine conditions for proper tilling. Take a look at these pictures of my tilled garden. (more…)
