Paula and I were going to plant things tomorrow, but it’s looking quite chilly. It’s just gorgeous out right now. So we spent a half an hour or so and got two kinds of onions (yellow granex and white granex) from sets in the beds, two kinds of potatoes in containers (experimenting with burlap sacks, potting soil bag, and cardboard boxes to make hilling them easier to get more potatoes), and seeds of French breakfast radish, green wave mustard, and Oregon sugar pod II pea. The peas we already have a few little vines of but I figured another round wouldn’t hurt to replace some since they blanch and freeze well if we get a lot.
White granex onions with some moss curled parsley from last year.Yellow granex bulb onions with some cabbage and chard from last year.Paula had the excellent idea to show the Yukon gold potato (burlap sacks/top) and Kennebec white potato (box and plastic bag) with their planters. We’re having a big freeze forecast for next week, so I only used half of the seed potatoes in case these die. (Also, I ran out of containers for now.) I am putting potatoes in containers to make them easier to hill dirt around, and also because crop rotation when all you plant is Solanaceae is very challenging.Briar says it was good sleepy sunshine to supervise in. She was pleased.
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Onions looking good and happy yall have a supervisor. Hi to Paula.
Onions looking good and happy yall have a supervisor. Hi to Paula.
Briar does look sleepy. A good day to be in the sunshine and play in the dirt. Hope your box and burlap works.