The Garden

This year I am making my first attempt at a large scale vegetable garden. I tilled my garden in middle of March. I planted spinach, radishes, carrots, potatoes, red onion, white onion, garlic and shallots. The spinach and radishes were the first things to come up in late March. They both are going like gangbusters now. I had to thin through them this weekend.

I was working in the garden this weekend and noticed that a couple of the potatoes are starting to peek through. I was worried about the potatoes because I had gone a little over three weeks from planting and wasn't seeing anything. Probably won't get all the potatoes, but a few at least.

The white onions, shallots and garlic I planted from starts and they are about 6-8 inches tall now. The red onions I planted from seed and are just now a couple of inches tall.

Some evening this week I will re-till the unplanted part of my garden. I will start setting up my trellaces for cucmbers and green beens. Hopefully will be planting tomatoes, peppers, corn, squash, zucchini, and musk melon towards later April early May.

Update 4/10/2008 This rain and cooler weather is slow down my garden. I think most of my potatoes are going to rot in the ground. This last week when we had a few warm days I saw a couple of potatoes poking up through the dirt, but they have had no growth in the last few days. Looks like we are going to get another light freee this weekend.

Update 4/14/2008
Well, the rain and cold have really slowed down my garden. Radishes are loving this weather, but my carrots and potatoes are not. I have four potatoe plants that have popped through but the freeze we had last night browned them pretty good. We'll see if they recover. A week or so of nice warm weather should really help things. If we can keep it warm like the Farmers Almanac predicts then we should start harvesting radishes and spinachin a couple of weeks.