The frustrating cycle of me being away from home during prime gardening time has started again. I’m a little late on some things and a little early on some things, but I wanted to get some cool weather vegetables in the ground. We had a single onion from last summer that was still hanging in the garage in some pantyhose. It had sprouted lots of shoots and was attempting to grow. I separated the individual plants and put them in the soil. I’m not sure they will live, they were pretty weak looking. I also had lots of other onions growing from last year’s crop that I accidentally didn’t completely harvest. So I now have over 30 onion plants growing and I didn’t pay a dime for them! I also planted a row of garlic. (I should have planted that months ago)
I also planted 2 variates of spinach, 2 variates of leaf lettuce, and 4 variates of carrots. It is still very cold and pretty wet, so I hope these actually germinate. We will see.
All of the spinach and broccoli that has been growing over the winter has survived the cold weather. I was very surprised by this. There was even a few heads of lettuce in the bed next to the garage that survived. This means this area doesn’t get as cold as the other beds, so I should be able to grow lots of things throughout the winter in that location.
Earlier this week I brought home 1 1/2 cubic yards of ‘pro-mix’ from Living Earth. It looks like pretty good soil, but it has rocks in it. I filled up my new raised bed with this soil, and it is ready to plant my asparagus crowns when they come in. My worms are doing good too. I was wondering if they would survive the winter, and it looks like they did just fine.
I am recording everything I plant and when I plant it on my gardening spreadsheet:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=peBNtoJDHv…