Redd Tornado
Attractive To Bees
Tomorrow is Saturday.
<<Feel free to insert "Thank you, Captain Obvious" here>>
I'm excited because I work 45 to 60 hours a week. At a job I really enjoy, but not as much as being in my garden.
Tomorrow I am going to plant lettuce and carrots, potatoes, onions and garlic. I am going to start my summer seeds in the greenhouse.
It’s a little late for the potatoes, but I am planting them anyway. I will get a few to eat and many more as bulb/seeds to plant next fall. Around the end of May I will dump my potato bin and gather up all of the tiny potatoes, let them dry off a bit, put them in a paper bag and stick them on the top self of my fridge, in the back. There they will rest until the end of July or mid August when I can start my fall/winter planting.
I ordered peas from Gurney’s, last night. Miragreen. It is supposed to be very productive, and tolerate heat, we will see. Since it’s a hybrid I can’t save the seeds. I figure this will ‘buy me time’ until I figure out a replacement for Wando. I’m curious at to see how far in to the spring these peas will get.
I also ordered an interesting looking yellow squash. Smooth Criminal, also a Hybrid. The squash grows on a stock, supposedly. (Gurney’s # 62753, if you want to look.) Maybe keeping the vine off the ground will stop the SVB (the B**stards). That and Vaseline, aluminum foil, Cap’t Jacks…on and around the stock. It’s an expensive experiment. $3.99 for 1 seed packet.
I ordered a few other things, the usual. Basil, eggplant, more carrots to replace the packets I am going to finish off tomorrow. These items arrive next Monday, which means that next Saturday I get to play in the garden again!
<<Feel free to insert "Thank you, Captain Obvious" here>>
I'm excited because I work 45 to 60 hours a week. At a job I really enjoy, but not as much as being in my garden.
Tomorrow I am going to plant lettuce and carrots, potatoes, onions and garlic. I am going to start my summer seeds in the greenhouse.
It’s a little late for the potatoes, but I am planting them anyway. I will get a few to eat and many more as bulb/seeds to plant next fall. Around the end of May I will dump my potato bin and gather up all of the tiny potatoes, let them dry off a bit, put them in a paper bag and stick them on the top self of my fridge, in the back. There they will rest until the end of July or mid August when I can start my fall/winter planting.
I ordered peas from Gurney’s, last night. Miragreen. It is supposed to be very productive, and tolerate heat, we will see. Since it’s a hybrid I can’t save the seeds. I figure this will ‘buy me time’ until I figure out a replacement for Wando. I’m curious at to see how far in to the spring these peas will get.
I also ordered an interesting looking yellow squash. Smooth Criminal, also a Hybrid. The squash grows on a stock, supposedly. (Gurney’s # 62753, if you want to look.) Maybe keeping the vine off the ground will stop the SVB (the B**stards). That and Vaseline, aluminum foil, Cap’t Jacks…on and around the stock. It’s an expensive experiment. $3.99 for 1 seed packet.
I ordered a few other things, the usual. Basil, eggplant, more carrots to replace the packets I am going to finish off tomorrow. These items arrive next Monday, which means that next Saturday I get to play in the garden again!
