Today is the first day back from vacation. It was awesome and if I thought I could get limes to grow here I would try. Obviously the first thing I did when getting home was check out my garden. When I left there were a few asparagus spears starting to poke through the soil and today 2 of them were ready to cut. Both on the smaller side but they are 4th year crowns and had a difficult first 2 years.
I also checked my mammoth melting snow peas. They all sprouted while I was gone but were just through, so it doesn’t look like they have been up long. As well it appears if all of them germinated.
Another thing that sprouted was some broccoli, kale, bok choy that I planted on April 14th but never documented. I wanted to see if they would come up so just sprinkled a few seeds where they will be going this year. It appears that they all have started to come up and the experiment was a success.
As some things were sprouting others were put into the ground. All 5 boxes were planted with carrots and parsnips. There will be 8 kinds of carrots and then the hollow crown parsnip that I grew last year. The carrots were planted on 6” rows and the parsnips on 8” rows. It is tight spacing but the soil is richer than normal and has no compaction. The carrots worked well with this spacing last year so thought I would try it out again. I will also be watering them to make sure that the boxes don’t dry out.
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