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• 2006-Mar-30 - Planted Outside so far....

I wasn't great about recording when I planted seeds so far this year, but if I write down when everything winds up outside (with whatever seeding dates I can decipher) that will still help in planning next year.  

 

Since we're still waiting for the pigs to get used to the electronet, they are still in and out of the spring garden. Hopefully we can ease them out this weekend. I cleared the area where we had asparagus last year, and made that into a small square foot plot, with six squares of spinach, six of swiss chard, and six of kale, all direct seeded, demarcated by radish rows. I put a short woodchip path in between that and our temporary asparagus bed, and found some nice aged bedding to throw over the asparagus roots that survived the move - I don't think many did, but we'll try to make a permanent spot for them this year and keep them there so they can start setting down soem more permanent roots. Next to that little plot I spread out some cardboard and started to cover that up in anticipation of planting the all blue potatoes that just arrived (curing right now). None of these new beds are ideal, but I needed to get SOMETHING in the ground! Hopefully the pigs will cooperate and give me my nice big spring plot back ASAP!

 

I also worked on clearing the honeysuckle off of the lilac, much to the delight of the goats, and started cleaning up my herb bed - the oregano is coming back nicely, as are the three cluimps of chives I divided and moved. Not sure how the rosemary and thyme fared, but I have rooted cuttings from last year I can move back out there as soon as the bed is ready. I'm trying to keep one step ahead of the thistle that is the biggest problem in that area. I'd like to put down some manure and mulch before I plant the parsley and basil, and add a few clumps of garlic chives if I can find them at a nursery. The combination of white and purple chive flowers would be a nice addition to our mesclun mix. I'm moving the surviving strawberries from their ragtag bed to the herb garden as well, in the hope that they'll keep down the emerging thistles somewhat. We're starting a new strawberry bed this year of Honeyoye, which are supposed to be a good organic variety for us here.


Updated to add: I put in about half the blues in a lasagne style bed (lots of composted mulch over cardboard), and started another bed the same way to put the rest in. Then more lasagne beds, I think, for the strawberry beds. My goal is to get things in pretty soon after they arrive - last year things sat around and suffered for it. Oh, and I think we're going to buy another apple tree this weekend- they have some great two or three year dwarf granny smiths at Agway - my favorite! (We planted three apples, three peaches, and two or three pears last year - they're tiny, but they survived their first winter)

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• 2006-Mar-30 - Asparagus Question

Posted by MrsBurns
Did you plant asparagus seeds or did you plant young plants? If plants, where did you get them and have you been happy with the turn out?

We are evaluating starting an asparagus spot so I am paying special attention to what folks have to say about it.

Thanks!
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