Garden Activity Report – 6 Feb 2010

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.

This entry was posted in Gardening and tagged , , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink.

One Response to Garden Activity Report – 6 Feb 2010

  1. I am recording everything I plant and when I plant it on my gardening spreadsheet:
    http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=peBNtoJDHv

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.