I started seeds MONTHS ago so that I'd be ready to go early to plant them. And here it is the end of April. Just this weekend, I finally put 7 basil plants in the ground, 3 patty pan squash, and 5 shallots. The best laid plans... Anyway, it was good to finally get them in. And I planted them with some gorgeous compost that we'd sifted a couple weekends ago. We used the coarser woody chunks as mulch on the yard to suppress weeds. The fine compost I put in a trash can to store until I needed it in the garden. In addition to a healthy crop of pill bugs and ear wigs, I couple squash-like plants sprouted in the trash can. So I planted those in the garden today too and labeled them "mystery". DS, who loves flowers, was pleased that we were able to plant about 7 marigolds that were already blooming after starting them from seed.
I gotta hand it to our citrus trees. Today I picked the last orange tree clean. They've been feeding us steadily since early December. I've harvested over 216 pounds of mandarins, tangelos and navel oranges! That's a lot of produce.
I've been keeping my "garden finance log" with the expenses and yields of the garden, starting in Nov 2009 with a large seed order. To date, my garden expenses (which excludes water - hard to quantify - and labor) are $132.21 and my yield is $449.41.
We picked more of our carrots today, which is such a great crop for kids. It is so fun to see what comes up out of the ground!
I am jelous about the citrus and carrots. We are in WA and I have just started the baby transplants. I mean, we started from seed a couple months ago but they are just now big enough to put in the garden and still see...
ReplyDeleteMy first harvest should be radishes in about 2 weeks. Then probably nothing for another month at least.
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I put some radishes in for the winter, harvested those, and need to plant more. I wish I had more time!
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