the weather is warming and it is time to do some planting so early this morning i headed over to the portage community garden, where the spuds are doing well...the blues are even just coming into leaf...but they aren't in the photo because the leaves are so dark they are difficult to tell from the soil...they are there all the same...
i put heirloom maize seeds in to soak yesterday and today i took them out to the garden...
and planted them a foot apart in a low hill of compost along the north side of the bed...once they are a few inches tall i will plant pole beans to use the corn stalks as trellises and have two thirds of the three sisters...
i planted fifteen pea seeds in a fairly dense patch...they seem to like togetherness...by the spuds...
i also planted celery ( not a favorite but there was external pressure ) and some kohlrabi...the bed is filling...there will be a few more additions as the season moves along...perhaps some tomatoes and peppers...finished there i headed home...
where i dug these beds for the fifth time and added more compost...
and worm castings in specific areas even though i found a multitude of worms while i was turning the soil...
then i planted more peas, bush beans, borage ( to attract bees to the squash ), and zucchini...then i turned to more important matters...
many ( though not all ) of the tesointe seeds i soaked six days ago are more than ready to go in...
and this is where that "specific" comes in...i took a handful of worm castings,and a teosinte seedling and carefully planted them shoot side up...altogether today upwards of a hundred transplants, seedlings, and seeds went in for the season's start...there is more maize, teosinte, and transplants lurking in the near future...not to mention the cyclic spud planting...there are still seed potatoes to cut and callous...we have plans.
No comments:
Post a Comment