Mar. 27, 2009
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 I know some gardeners have been frustrated by the rain we are having this week because they want to plant. Mark watches the weather closely even in the winter but in the spring and summer he really watches it. If he sees a dry time we plant, or he plants, even if it is inconvenient. Since he works a full time job, we have to plant when he is off to supervise. The garden is his baby and we don't want to mess it up.  Mark planted around 30 Premium King Broccoli plants last weekend and Walla Walla Onions. Our spring broccoli never does as well as our fall crop and this year is no exception. Mark thinks the Premium King variety is more susceptible to the cold. One day when he was hardening them off ,he put the plants out early before he went to work. The plants looked kind of wilted when he came home.( Packman Broccoli is usually what Mark orders but he wasn't able to get those for spring planting.)So our broccoli is off to a slow start but hopefully we will get a good crop. I was very happy this week when Miriam noticed we had several bags of frozen broccoli still in the freezer at my mother in law's house. ( She lets us use part of her freezer and we give her fresh produce all summer ) Now on this rainy afternoon Miriam decided to make broccoli soup -Yum! Over the next couple of weeks we hope to plant some Kennebec Potatoes. We usually get those locally at Potters where Mark works. Mark says there is a potato shortage this year, according to their suppliers at Potters, so better get your potatoes soon! I don't know if it will affect the price of potatoes later this year or not. If our Guardian Strawberries that we ordered from Simmons get here, we will plant those this week-200 of them! This is a good resistant variety for this planting zone and they have a good taste. Some of you may want to know that Mark orders our seeds mostly from Fedco and Shumway. Fedco has good seeds and cheap prices. They are more organically oriented. We got our onion plants from Steele plants in TN. I know Mark should just write these gardening blogs but he doesn't have time. I can get him to dictate them to me so I can post them on here. Guess that will have to do. I love eating the produce but I don't love the gardening part. Too bad you can't eat flowers . I like flower gardening! Sorry there are no pictures again. Maybe next week... |
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Posted by Amy