hello nobody,
i'm starting this blog as my gardening journal. last year, i totally sucked at gardening! i don't know if i will get any better this year, but maybe i will learn something along the way. i think last year our only successes were delicata squash and some arugula before it got really tall and turned into flowers (i later learned this was called bolting). the chickens enjoyed a lot of broccoli that never formed heads and aphid-infested kale. and by infested, i mean aphids completely covering every inch TOTALLY DISGUSTING.
anyway, this year started off much like last year. i planted some stuff outside in late february and now have forgotten what it is. the good news -- stuff is coming up! i think it is arugula and radishes. note for next year: i also planted peas and they have mysteriously disappeared.
this year, new leaf. i thought i'd take some notes. so today, i blew out of the library with my final paper in a sorry state and drove straight to the garden store -- where they had a giant carrot cake! i had three pieces. anyway, i bought a lot of seeds that i realized when i got home that i already have. anticipating rain, i planted in our raised beds:
turnips - purple top white glob organic (nichols garden nursery)
chard - orange something, i threw away the package
peas - also totally threw away the package
and around the time i planted up the mystery beds outside, i started some stuff inside:
negro di toscana kale (territorial seed co.)
spinach - oriental giant hybrid (nichols garden nursery)
lettuce - no idea
beets
celery - red giant (territorial)
i went ahead and transplanted one of each of the spinach, kale and lettuce into the beds outside. oh, i did harden them off a bit, but only for two days. i fully expect them to all die. we'll see.
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