Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Field Co-op

Today I stopped by the barnyard garden to plant some more potatoes.   With about 40% of them rotting in the ground using some we already had we are going to replant some of the bare areas.  I ended up planting 2 rows of blue potatoes and then 10lb of whatever variety someone else had.  I also slipped in another 100 Spanish onions.
While I was there I checked on my own plot.  The peppers are doing better than they were lots of new growth on them and they needed to be weeded badly.   No peppers yet but I do expect to see some in the next week.
The peas are doing great.  There are beautiful purple flowers on them and even a few tiny blue pods.  I'm planning on picking them as snow peas to add that great color to salads or raw to a stir fry.  The plants aren’t attaching themselves to the towers like I thought they might.  I did add some string for them to cling to but even then I didn’t have enough of it apparently.  In the future all climbing peas need a very small diameter surface to wrap their tendrils around.

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