Since there’s just never enough time in the spring to do much writing, we’ll let a few photos speak for our “busy hands.” Enjoy and more later!
Remember I mentioned in an earlier post about planting potatoes weeks before the neighbors? Here’s why:
From little sprouts in mid-April pictured above to mid-May’s gorgeous tall plants:
The Red Pontiac potatoes above are about 30″ tall and starting to flower. That means the potatoes are growing down in the dirt. Yum! The Kennebec potatoes in the next bed are up about 24″ so we’ll be eating potatoes throughout the growing season here on The Little Half Acre. And, as a bonus, some of the Austrian Fingerlings must have been left in the Hugel Mound last fall because several have sprouted and are growing like mad. Can’t wait!
All the little seedlings that were in flats just a month ago have been planted out and are growing well:
But, since there wasn’t enough growing space to plant all the seedlings, Grow Bags came to the rescue! Watermelon, tomatoes, corn (more later) and green beans are happily climbing skyward while the lumber for another two beds stares us (daily) in the face:
And, remember the lettuce and onions that went into the garden in February???
Growing like mad and we’re eating delicious salads! We’ve also got spinach, radishes, kales, chard, peas, cabbage, mustard, cucumbers, snow peas, mustard, beets, turnips, broccoli, kohlrabi, parsnips and carrots. Whew. Here’s a few pix of that:
But here’s one of my favorites —
Meet Celeste! Along with her two buddies Hardy (Chicago Hardy Fig) and Violette (Violette de Bordeaux Fig), we hope she will produce lots of yummy figs over the next few years. Hardy and Violette have already been transplanted into ten gallon grow pots so we’re just waiting. And waiting. That’s okay though. Cause the strawberries are doing beautifully and the two new blueberries we added last month are gonna see us through for a bit:
And the two blueberry containers? I especially love those because my father made them for me before he passed away. They were going to be upholstered and used as ottomans but I flipped them over, filled them with dirt and the two blueberry bushes from a local nursery and now – every time I inspect the tiny little berries growing – I get to think of Dad. Not a bad thing at all.
