Blossoms

It's April 9th, and I have been readying my raised beds. The greenhouse has several things growing, and I have put fava beans in my raised beds. Spinach is coming up, along with radishes:

Two exemplars of each are visible in this photo. The forecast is for mild weather.

It wasn't mild a few days ago when I had to cover the peach with a tarp to protect it from lows in the low 20s. The tree was about to bloom, and today I took a picture of some blossoms, which I hope will turn into fruit here comes summer.

Too early?

My early planting experiment has failed.

In January I planted some spinach and some kale in my greenhouse. The spinach came up. But then February came streaking cold, snow, rain and overnight lows in the teens. Not much of a sign of vegetable life remains.

So today I decided to try again. I put some spinach in the greenhouse and radishes, green beans and more spinach in the raised bed outside the greenhouse. Let's see how it goes.

All eyes are 'n the ground

First of all, I want to express my thanks to all my followers who filed comments on my last post.

I realize that I have not given an account of my 2022 potato harvest. Unfortunately I have misplaced the potato fact sheet: how many pound harvested, essentially. But I can assert that it was an excellent crop, all the more so because unplanned and unexpected. Sometimes I wonder...

This year I will try to keep track of all my garden doings. And today I planted all the eyes I had managed to carve out of my potato crop in the last few weeks. They are all in the wagon garden, and I look forward to seeing their progress.

I have also planted spinach in the greenhouse trough, and Russian Kale in a smaller planter in the greenhouse.

Needless to say, I have doctored the soil in the trough and in the wagon garden. Other such doctoring is underway. Never anything but my compost and my friend Gary's horse manure.

I have also assembled another raised bed, and it's ready to make its entrance into the vegetable penitentiary (I am thinking of renaming the "penitentiary" the "resort") where its designated task is to grow tomatoes. More garden beds are coming.

Lo and behold!

 For all of you devoted followers of this blog of mine, hear hear!

It's a new year and I am getting my garden beds ready.

I was in the greenhouse working on the soil in the trough, adding manure and stirring. And look what I found!

A clear demonstration of my ineptitude at harvesting potatoes. 606 grams of demonstration. We are still eating my potatoes from last year's garden, but are about to run out. I have been selecting sprouting potato-eyes, but as I am ignorant of potato culture, all I know is last year's harvest was the result of me throwing some potato eyes in a couple of my raised gardens. I have added the three miniscule ones on the left to my potato eye stash. We'll see what happens. But, please, don't inundate me with me with suggestions. I can only process one message per week.

Once I finished (?) pullling potatoes out of the ground, I treated my soil and planted spinach. We'll see what happens. Happy gardening.

The Beat Goes on

Tomatoes keep on coming. I think I had weighed a total of 10,904g through the 7th of September. Since then I have harvested another 11,917g--almost 23kg. We are feasting on them, making salsa di pomodoro for our off-season consumption. The freezer is full.

The Great Tomato Production

Tomatoes of several varieties are busting out of the vines. This morning 3,511g. That's three and a half kilos or 7.74 pounds! Tomato sauce a-coming.

The Great Potato Feast

Here is the story. Two seasons ago I threw a few potato eyes in a couple of my beds, and more in my compost. I harvested about ten pounds of potatoes at the end of the season. This past spring I did not plant any potatoes. Lo and behold, their foliage started showing up and growing, as shown here:

In one of my new raised beds in the penitentiary.

In the wagon garden.

In my window garden.

A few days ago I scraped this off the wagon garden:

The big one weighs almost a quarter kilo, 227g. Today I saw two other potatoes popping out of the soil in the window garden and I plucked them, here shown with the other harvests of the morning:

More beans, more carrots, more tomatoes and more of my mutated zucchini.

The tomatoes are coming on strong, heirloom and friends shown here. So far I have harvested 2,327g of tomatoes; made three batches of tomato sauce and frozen one. I will be keeping track of the potatoes by weight as well.