{"id":1683,"date":"2017-05-11T15:26:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T19:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelittlehalfacre.com\/staging\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2017-05-11T15:31:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T19:31:24","slug":"a-quick-pictorial-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelittlehalfacre.com\/staging\/a-quick-pictorial-update\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Pictorial Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since there’s just never<\/em> enough time in the spring to do much writing, we’ll let a few photos speak for our “busy hands.”\u00a0 Enjoy and more later!<\/p>\n

Remember I mentioned in an earlier post about planting potatoes weeks before the neighbors?\u00a0 Here’s why:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>From little sprouts in mid-April pictured above to mid-May’s gorgeous tall plants:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Red Pontiac potatoes above are about 30″ tall and starting to flower.\u00a0 That means the potatoes are growing down in the dirt.\u00a0 Yum!\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Can’t wait!<\/p>\n

All the little seedlings that were in flats just a month ago have been planted out and are growing well:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>But, since there wasn’t enough growing space to plant all the seedlings, Grow Bags came to the rescue!\u00a0 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:<\/p>\n