NwMtGardener
Garden Addicted
I know...some of you are probably flabberghasted that i'm just getting started, especially the ones harvesting by now! I am running a little late for my own schedule...usually i have the greenhouse going by the end of april...altho the plants go in & out that early. But i'm really not that behind for direct planting in montana without any protection. Here's what i got accomplished today:
Weeding - i did this once before, so just a quick run thru the garden today to get out any new ones.
Cleared out garden shed a bit to get to the things i needed.
Installed timer, garden hose and soaker hose.
Set up my plant starting shelf on sawhorses, cut plant ID tags out of yogurt cups, and started seeds of:
Basil, muncher cucumbers, cocozelle zucchini, delicata squash, spaghetti squash, blue hubbard squash, acorn squash, hot peppers.
Up-potted my campari and big boy tomatoes, the only plants i started indoors this year.
Direct planted more lettuce, some purple cabbages, beets and sugar snap peas. Oh, and cilantro.
I'm also excited...i'm getting some quinoa seed, i got inspired thanks to Hoodat's post about it, and i have a new area to plant it in, thanks to the death of my clematis. I'm kinda bummed about the clematis, but it is giving me the opportunity to try something new! I ordered the seed from Sustainable Seed, and they grow this variety at 6,000 feet in colorado, so i figure it should do ok with my short growing season. The area i'm putting it in is separate from all my other garden beds too, so i wont mind if it self-seeds.
BTW, some of you may remember my raspberry cane issues from last year...nasty looking lesions on the stems and leaves. I'm so surprised, they're sprouting just fine this year so far!!
Oh, one more thing i accomplished today: sunburn :rainbow-sun
Weeding - i did this once before, so just a quick run thru the garden today to get out any new ones.
Cleared out garden shed a bit to get to the things i needed.
Installed timer, garden hose and soaker hose.
Set up my plant starting shelf on sawhorses, cut plant ID tags out of yogurt cups, and started seeds of:
Basil, muncher cucumbers, cocozelle zucchini, delicata squash, spaghetti squash, blue hubbard squash, acorn squash, hot peppers.
Up-potted my campari and big boy tomatoes, the only plants i started indoors this year.
Direct planted more lettuce, some purple cabbages, beets and sugar snap peas. Oh, and cilantro.
I'm also excited...i'm getting some quinoa seed, i got inspired thanks to Hoodat's post about it, and i have a new area to plant it in, thanks to the death of my clematis. I'm kinda bummed about the clematis, but it is giving me the opportunity to try something new! I ordered the seed from Sustainable Seed, and they grow this variety at 6,000 feet in colorado, so i figure it should do ok with my short growing season. The area i'm putting it in is separate from all my other garden beds too, so i wont mind if it self-seeds.
BTW, some of you may remember my raspberry cane issues from last year...nasty looking lesions on the stems and leaves. I'm so surprised, they're sprouting just fine this year so far!!
Oh, one more thing i accomplished today: sunburn :rainbow-sun
i've been loving my job taking xrays, and get to work in a great department with techs that i worked with all thru school. :coolsun
