01 May 2011

Garden Week 5

Happy May Day!
                           
                                           Even though I planted my tulip bulbs MONTHS late, they are still growing!
Finally planted out the French fingerling potatoes! I decided to put them on the "side yard" because that area gets a lot of sunshine. I made two rows of 5 potato "seeds." I'm excited for all the potatoes we'll get just from these 10 "seeds." It'll be fun, hilling and mounding the potato plant underground and by August we'll have a great potato feast! :)

Due to the warm sunshine, the cauliflower  and cabbage are doing much better!
The carrots FINALLY came up! After 3+weeks!! They are messy and everywhere now, due to the evil visitor, but at least they've arrived.

Planted some more beets and they are doing okay!
Lettuce is ready for eating! I think I'll make a salad for dinner tomorrow.

Radishes are doing better. They should have matured by now, but I think they will just take a couple more weeks, thanks to the evil visitor and the pouring down rain we got two weeks ago.
Messy salad greens...but at least they are growing!
(green?) Onions

I've decided that things are growing a little too slowly due to not very much light. I purposely planted the cold-weather veggies in their locations because I didn't want them to get too much heat/sun during the summer. But I'm a little worried it's not enough sunlight right now in the spring. So we'll see if things actually grow to maturity...



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