I started some heirloom seeds that had been in the refrigerator or a year last week. As you can see, they’ve begun to sprout and are doing well. We have a risk of freezing temps several nights this week so they won’t be transplanted for some time yet. To protect these we will place an old moving blanket over it in the evenings.
Also inside our mini green house and several varieties of heirloom tomato, spinach, pumpkin, cucumbers, bell peppers, jalapeño peppers and banana peppers. There were started later and haven’t sprouted yet.
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Today’s project was to put together this little green house from left over scrap lumber and to get some seeds started. Originally I had intended on just setting the old window on top. When I fund a set of mismatched hinges I decided to attach them and make my little handle. I bought a 2×2 to complete this project, the rest of the material was already on hand.
Once it was together it was time to get some seeds started and inside the box. Various heirloom Tomato seeds and some zucchini are started and will hopefully poke through in about one week. If all goes well a tractor with an attached tiller will work over the garden tomorrow.
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Today we raked back the straw covering the red Inchelium garlic we planted last fall. It looks like it s doing well. Hopefully we will have plenty of garlic this year with some left over to plant again this fall.
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December 30th, 2012
Heath
Yesterday afternoon my neighbor called and asked if I’d like some liquid gold for our garden. He had taken two loads of cattle to the city and had a trailer full of manure. He backed up to the garden and we pushed from the front towards the back with our shovels. He got help cleaning out the trailer and I got some wonderful manure for the garden. We were both tickled!
It is hard to tell how much is there in this picture, but I’d estimate it to be covering a 4 by 6 piece of the garden and is several inches thick. It will sit there until spring before being broken up, spread around the garden and then tilled into the soil.
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A gentleman in the neighborhood was offering to share his bounty of purple top turnips if you’d come out and pick them. We took advantage of his generosity and brought home a mess. We left eggs so I hope we are both happy.
We ate several and then I canned up eight pints last night.
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A few turnips steamed with a little butter and salt and pepper. Yum!
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This is one of the biggest turnips I’ve ever seen.
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September 27th, 2012
Heath
I’m not a big garlic expert or anything, so my choice in what to use my first year of planting garlic was based solely on my personal tastes. In the end I went with Inchelium Red garlic that we purchased online from a small business in Colorado.
The bed for the garlic was tilled after adding a mixture of old straw and grass clippings to the soil. The cloves were planted two inches deep and 6 inches apart with the root end of each clove down. The patch was staked off with wooden stakes to keep me from forgetting its location. A few fresh grass clippings were scattered on the bed.
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Well, the last of the potatoes are now out of the garden. We will have these gone by the end of next month.
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A friend told me about a few wild patches of asparagus next to the road. The girls and I cruised the country roads between home and those spots looking for wild patches. In all we recorded 5 great patches on the GPS. The GPS should make it easy to find next spring.
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