with seventeen trees in my back yard and five in the front areas of full sun are at a premium and confined to the south side of the yard and house...since part of that is a driveway i have taken to growing what needs full sun in containers...
so i purchased a couple of twenty gallon totes, which were cheap since they did not have lids...shipping and/or ordering error one supposes...drilled drainage holes in the bottoms and covered them with a thin layer of garden soil...
i had cut some red nordland seed potatoes yesterday to allow them to callous...i put them in one container and covered them with more garden soil...
i did the same with some russian banana fingerling potatoes which i did not cut and callous...
and i gave them a shot of water with marigold's help...i will move them into the sun and as they break surface bury them again until they reach the top of the containers...and we will see how well this works ( or not )...
elsewhere around the yard, mason bees are just waking up and getting to work...so far they have filled seventy-five tbes in two bee houses with larvae...the next generation is well under way...
the asparagus continues to produce new spears which i am harvesting although i have left a few to "fern" early to feed the roots...
the ramps on the north side of the house are doing well...hoping for bunching and for flowers both...
the mooseberry bush ( aka high bush cranberry for those of you berift of the bullwinkle j. mooose reference ) is blooming...
the strawberries are blooming as well and beginning to bear fruit...
a dense stand of jerusalem artichokes in one corner of a bed will need close monitoring or they will take over...
the first chinese yam vine of the year has popped up...there will be more...another colonizer...
and, finally, the potato that had been under the lights in the basement has been outside for going on a week...it has clearly shocked and is expressing its ambivalence about the environment it finds itself in...i can relate...more as it comes up.
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