The Waiting Game

All the hard work is done. I prepped the beds with worm and chicken poo. Tilled last years mulch under. Cleared out all the old dead plants from last year and thew them into the new hot compost pile. And laid the seed for my winter crop. Planted about 15 different patches of vegetables altogether.

It's been awfully warm around these parts, we have not had a cold or wet winter at all. Although my water bill does not appreciate this, it also makes for rapid seed germination. It's the waiting game at this point.

Ready. Set. Grow.

Most of the seed packs I used for Winter, not including potatoes, onions, peas and beans

Swiss chard

Pea trellis

Pea sprouts

Baby Carrots

Kohlrabi

Stella Bell the Duck

Radish

New gardening station/germination sun table for this warm winter. Germinating tomatoes for March transplant. 

Artichoke

New compost hot pile this year: All food scraps but meat and dairy, Stella's straw soiled bedding and grass clippings

Photobomb.

Side bed, arugula seedlings at base

Back yard raised bed

5 Elephant garlic, used the ones I grew last year to propagate new ones for this season

Red Onions, 60 of 'em

Good 'ol Yukon Potatoes 

One week after compost tea

Its been a week since brewing my first batch of compost tea and applying it to all my plants. As I said, I feel that the plants are thriving here at the new home but the compost tea has added new brilliant green growth to most of the plants. The tomatoes have started sprouting new growth all over the entire plant. They are healthier than any tomatoes I have ever grown before. I can not wait to eat them.

Zucchini on left and Brandywine Heirloom tomato on right below.

Midget melon on the left (started from seed in March), cucumbers on the right (from starters).

Radishes on the left, kohlrabi on the right, started from seed 10 days ago.

Crinkle and romaine lettuce

Abundance - Week 12

That was just dirt my first post - 3 mo. ago - ALL from seed

Sweet pea flowers - soon to be peas!

My heirloom tomatoes are strong and healthy

Elephant Garlic getting huge

Arugula taking over my life - please come help eat it!

Crinkle leaf and romaine lettuce

Peas, onions, chard and empty radish plot shot

Surviving the storm - Week 5

Its been rough, raining, pouring, and well, lets face it, the old man is snoring. I was really worried about losing a lot of the direct seedlings with such heavy rain so early in the season. Although some have washed away, and some were literally pound into the ground, the rest have survived and are thriving, which is great so early in the season. These pictures were taken today, which means that we have finally caught up.

Broccoli from last season going to seed

Broccoli, that came out more like broccolinni

Here is some fennel that I just transplanted to the ground from a pot that I started in October. It finally took off, I had it in the wrong soil this whole time. It has doubled in size every week for 4 weeks.

Fennel

 Chard in the foreground, re-seeded from last year

Radishes are in!

 Radishes, Onions, and Sweet Peas

Arugula & Lettuce (at top)