April is one of the busiest of months during the springtime where I like to transplant my cold weather plants into the garden and into totes. I always place my onion bulbs in totes and that is what I have been doing for years. At the moment not all my totes have onions and I have only planted a few red onions into three totes so far. I will fill up the totes with enough onions by sometime this week at the latest.
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Weather for the month of May has been rather cold for transplanting summer crops such as tomatoes and peppers. It has been good for planting cold weather crops such as potatoes, onions, spinach, peas, radishes, sunflowers, dill, alyssum, lettuce, and broccoli. All these plants are now in the garden and the last spring crop that needs to be transplanted to the garden would be carrots. These are growing in peat pots so planting them should be quick and easy.
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After planting all my tomatoes and broccoli in small trays this season it was time to get them out and place them in larger containers. Most of my plants were becoming pot bound and the roots could not grow any further. I used plastic cups for these plants and this will give them plenty of room for the roots to grow until it is time to put them into the ground.
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By now I would have most if not all of the garden tilled at this time. I like tilling the entire garden in one or two days so that I can start planting seeds and transplanting most of my indoor plants outside. This season has not been typical and has been still too cool to place everything into the garden. This is good for my cool weather plants that I recently placed in the garden, but I am still trying to harden off all my others before placing them permanently into the ground.
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So Far I have only harvested a couple of fruits and vegetables this season including strawberries which I discussed in a previous post and peas which I happened to harvest this afternoon. It was only a small harvest, but it is definitely enough for at least one meal. There are plenty of peas left on the plants that suggest that many more harvests are to come. (more…)
It has been awhile since the last post and I have been real busy with planting new seeds, making rows, digging up soil, and even began transplanting many plants as well. Let’s get into what has been going on in the garden up until now. (more…)
For the past couple of days I have been focusing on getting all my transplants into the garden including peppers, eggplants, cucumbers, pickle cucumbers, and the last of my honeydew melons. I also needed to plant at least one row of carrot seeds. (more…)
I was hoping to get as many plants into the garden as possible today, because there is going to be some rain coming very soon. I find it is best to get them into the garden quickly so they can adjust quickly to the soil and get some free rain with it as well. (more…)
Today was more about transplanting my flowers to the garden. They have been outside for a little bit short of a month and that is plenty of time to be sure that the weather will not affect them from here on till the end of the season. I got all my dill, wildflowers, and some alyssum added to the garden. (more…)
It feels more and more like spring with all the warm weather that should be arriving this entire week. Since all this warm weather is coming I thought today would be perfect to add all my strawberries into the garden. (more…)
