Remaining Seeds Started

Today I started the last 3 trays of seeds.  I started 30 tomatoes plants, 5 cells of green onions, 6 cells of kale and 12 cells of broccoli.  I am growing all of the tomatoes I grew last year Bloody Butcher, Slava , Black plum, Yellow plum, Cabernet, and new this year some Sweetie cherry tomatoes.

This gives me a total of 6 tray of seeds under 3 lights.

The seeds I previously started are doing pretty well, almost all of the peppers are up except the yellow Hungarian I have had issues with them in the past but they are very disappointing this year. I don't think I will be trying to grow them next year right now out of 21 seeds I have one that has come up.

First Peppers

The medusa peppers are starting to come up as well as the green onions

Onions Harvested

I had some ambitious plans for tonight and managed to taken care of most of them.  On the way home from work I harvested all of the onions from the barnyard field.  I ended up with around a bushel, from 400 onions.   It was less than I was hoping for, but with the weather and the fact that they were planted late, it could have been worse.  They will be spread out in the blacksmith shop on Saturday to dry out before I clean them up. 

While I was there I also picked my first good purple peppers of the year.  They are very purple, a decent size and I am quite pleased with how they have turned out. As you can see some of them went to seed.
 

After that picked all the white carrots and cut the tops off of them for the horses.  There was also a generous chunk of carrot on most of those tops as well.  The white carrots although sticking out of the ground weren’t as big as I thought they might be.  For the entire box I ended up with about the same amount as I had for the Atomic Red carrots but with twice the space used.  Below is a picture of what they look like.  Weighted in at 2lb 4oz for the entire box.

 

They defiantly don’t have the sweetness that you get with orange carrots, but still taste like a carrot.  I’m not sure if I would buy seeds for these again or not.

 

Then proceeded to stop at the field to get rid of the carrot tops and dig some baby potatoes.  All the potatoes coming out of the field will end up being small and for some reason slightly bitter.  I think it’s because of the soil and lack of water but was still worth a shot to grow them this year.

After that went to get a best man for my wedding and then home to clean and freeze the carrots.

Potatoe Co-op Maintence

Tonight was the potato co-op at the field.  The potatoes from a lack of water are looking pretty rough.  As well the potato bugs seem to have devastated over half of the plants. So we ended up spending the night tilling between some of the rows, weeding and picking a few potato bugs.  I also checked on my onions in the field.  They are about twice the size of golf balls and will be ready to come out of the field in a couple weeks.  I'm going to let them die off a little more before they are picked in hopes that I might get them a little bigger.  They were planted pretty late and were a last minute thought so the size doesn’t bother me.

Long Weekend

It has been a while since I managed to get a post up but it has just been very busy.  So weekend plans changed slightly so I decided that even though my plants hadn’t been fully hardened off to plant them anyways.  On Friday night I set up 2 of the 4 trellis and the following morning set up another.  There is still one more to go up for the pole beans. 

On Saturday morning I planted another tomato plant (Yellow Pear), the Bok Choy, Cucumbers (Lemon, Straight Eight), some of my pepper plants (Sweet Banana), and some bush and climbing beans (Yellow and Green Wonder Wax, and Improved Tendergreen).   I also planted some asparagus in pots outside to start crowns this year for fall planting in a permanent site.

Well I have been out in the garden and almost everything is looking good, the peppers tomato plants and bok choy transplanted very well.  The cucumbers on the other hand not so much, they are still alive but are probably not going to do very much, not that I expected them too but hoped they might live.  All of the lettuce, musclun mix and spinach that I planted all sprouted, as well as the green onions and the second planting of peas.  I am still waiting for some of the garlic to sprout in the bottom bed but it is now getting much more shade than it was a couple weeks ago so might take a little longer.  The garlic in the top bed the bulbils, have all sprouted.  Also my potatoes are up!  I only have 7 plants in my garden here but am glad they have sprouted.  

These pictures are from May 15th, i just havn't had a chance to get them up.  The one below is of the peas first coming up.

This one above is of the garlic bulbils sprouting up.

About half of the planting is done so far, I have planted my entire garden except for 1 row that was going to be peppers, but I might turn it into carrots or potatoes, gong to hold off a little bit while I decide. There is still the field garden to plant but I am waiting until it has been finished being worked up.  It has been plowed but still needs to be disked and harrowed.  It has been very wet and it is a heavier clay based soil so it might still be a couple more weeks.  Pumpkins, Squash, Carrots, Potatoes, Onions, Watermelon and probably extra Cucumbers and Tomatoes will be planted there.  I am an impatient person so because I can’t do anything to speed it up (damn weather),   I am thinking more about container gardening to increase my garden output. I do currently have 4 large pots and a long wooden box with lettuce, spinach, musclun mix and green onions in them but will probably add more.

Quick Post

This post is just to say that after checking out the garden this afternoon the kale and leeks looked just fine, with no ill affects from the night.  The weather forecast also doesn’t show frost in the next week, so I figure there is no point on waiting 3 days to plant the remaining plants and might as well do it now.  So today I planted the remaining plants in the garden and also planted some Green Onions (Southport White Globe) in a pot.  I watered them, but the soil was already wetter than I thought and the top inch instantly turned to mud.  It should hopefully dry out in the next few days.