Snow expected tonight.\u00a0 Still agog.\u00a0 Covered lettuce, spinach, radishes, bok choi in Jones with plastic row covers.\u00a0 Conversely and humorously planted seven lettuce seedlings in Smith hours before predicted snow but didn’t cover those at all.\u00a0 Been sitting out all week; thoroughly hardened off.\u00a0 No great loss if they go, but satisfying triumph (and more garden lore gained) if they survive.\u00a0 Planted as a border.\u00a0 Will extend border with more adolescent lettuce next weekend.<\/p>\n
Walla Walla onion seeds in Jones finally sprouting!\u00a0 Sheesh!\u00a0 About time!\u00a0 Had about given up on them.\u00a0 (tell me again why I love this activity, this risky gamble of a waiting game called gardening?)\u00a0 Planted them in rows between spinach and lettuce, an attempt to add interest and get the most out of the space.<\/p>\n
Garden produce consumed last few days: spinach from The Lorelei.\u00a0 (What I’ve named the garden space outside my front door.\u00a0 Now it’s Smith, Jones, and The Lorelei. I like the sound of it.)<\/p>\n
More produce consumed: while typing this am eating a green onion I pulled today.\u00a0 Egyptian (walking) onion.\u00a0 Dug the ones that “walked” into the pathway at Smith.\u00a0 Am “digging” eating this one, the stem so sweet, the green, a poignant peppery-hot spring kick in the rear; memories of childhood.<\/p>\n
Still more: picked mint at Smith; bushels grow there in summer.\u00a0 Virtually a weed, but a tasty aromatic one.\u00a0 Used in season’s first mint juleps.\u00a0 Summer drink in March?\u00a0 You bet!\u00a0 So sue me.<\/p>\n
Covered gorgeous broccoli plants in The Lorelei with a motley crew of boxes, plastic containers, pots and a blue bucket.\u00a0 Too healthy and promising to leave to predicted snow’s tender mercies.<\/p>\n
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Snow expected tonight.\u00a0 Still agog.\u00a0 Covered lettuce, spinach, radishes, bok choi in Jones with plastic row covers.\u00a0 Conversely and humorously planted seven lettuce seedlings in Smith hours before predicted snow but didn’t cover those at all.\u00a0 Been sitting out all … Continue reading