First Spring Harvest!

So today I finally made it home at a decent time, and was able to do a little on the garden.  I planted 4 kinds of Potatoes (Banana Fingerlings, Black Macintosh, River John Blue and Blue Russian.  I only planted a couple hill of each, because next week after the portion of my uncles field has been tilled up I’m going to be planting the rest of them there, as well as about 20lb of Red potatoes (think they are red chieftains).  I am already a little unhappy about the Russian Blue because they were much more expensive then all the others but were the first blue potatoes I found, damn my impatience.

In my basement growing room I also planted some Zucchini (Dark Green, Gold Rush), Cucumbers (Straight Eight, Lemon), I also planted some Watermelon (Sugar Baby) and Cantaloupe (Delicious 51).  The melon seeds are from 2 years ago and my little cousin wanted me to try and grow some.  Last time I tried we had that cold wet summer and they didn’t do very well at all, I think the biggest one was the size of a baseball.

Today was also the first time I have been able to harvest my own asparagus from my garden!  I only had 3 spears that were tall enough to cut today but hope to get more in the next couple days.  There is also some growing wild in the ditches by my house, I also plan on cutting it too.

Also in the garden I noticed my garlic starting to sprout.  This garlic I planted approximately 2 weeks ago from bulbils.  This is a terrific website that explains all about garlic and garlic bulbils Garlic Farm.  They look like little pine needles poking through.  I will try to put up a picture tomorrow if it isn’t raining too hard to get one.  I will put up a more in depth post on garlic and the varieties I am growing when I have more time.

This all actually happened yesterday but due to the blogger being down I was unable to post.