My new seed nursery

Ah, my sweetheart built me a spot in the garage to start my seeds with a sun lamp and foil sides and top!  It holds three flats. 

Two weeks ago I planted tomatoes, Brandywine, Sweet One Hundreds, and San Marzanos as well as poblano peppers, little sweet cherry red peppers, Japanese Soyu cucumbers, and thunbergias or black eyed susan vine.  They have been living  on my bookshelf under grow light.  So, today, they moved into their nursery.  I then added to my nursery garden by planting tomatillos, basil, both garden grown and saved and Sicilian, chives, burnet, Victorian pansies, Shasta daisies and early Jersey Wakefield cabbages (from Monticello).  Happy day!




 

Plantings added

One day maybe I will find the day to day time to write - week to week would be nice, how about even monthly!

Anyway, I have a number of things in the garden and as I go through my inbox, which includes plant tags, I'll write them  in today.

I just found the tag for the Liberty apple.  "Disease-resistant, cold hard apple. Resists scab, rust, mildew, fireblight. Solid red even in  hot climate. Crisp, rich sprightly flavor. Fresh or cooked.  Early fall harvest...Self fruitful.  And that's why I chose it.

Summer garden step two

Today the Zucchini San Pasquale went in.  I have grown this three years now and just love the flavor.  The vines don't run, but that is not to say the plants are small.  I planted an Italian melon, melon rampicante zuccherino. The melons are 2 to 2.5 pounds and are said to taste great with parma or other hams.  Yum!  I put two short rows of of cucumber beth alpha.  These are a thin  skin, burpless early cuke.   And lastly I planted two short rows of bush bean, Tavera, a french filet type. 

The favas are almost done.  They have stopped flowering.  The snap peas are coming in just on time.  Good luck there.  There was a second fava bed.  They came up from a winter cover crop.  I pulled them this weekend.  The beans were no where like my saved seed.  The pods were small and tough. They will make great compost.

Love working in the garden this weekend.  Loved it.

Transplants and more seeds

I transplanted my starts Saturday. I put in the Basque peppers, the Genovese basil, white ribbed chard and the white eggplants  (seeds from Monticello) as well as the flower, Salpiglosis.  I also purchased and transplanted 4 common sage and a rosemary officinalis named Tuscany. 

I then started some more seeds, one set is a new pepper that a friend gave me, Padron peppers.  These are a pepper that is sauteed and served with salt as a tapas dish. I am hoping enough will come up to grow some for myself and to give her for her garden when she returns from travels. I also planted flat leaf parsley, borage, chives, and a columbine variety, Mrs. Scott Elliott.  I also tucked a few Detroit Red beet seeds directly into the bed with peas and carrots.  It was a lovely day!

Picking favas and lot's to learn about posting photos....

Picked my first big harvest of favas on Saturday!  Oh, so much work to get on the table and oh, so worth it!

I think I will post photos one at a time for now on; look at all that empty space on my iris posting below!  I couldn't figure out how to manipulate the imagines and the language.  There are only so many hours in the day!

Just for you Kathleen!

After the rain on Kathleen's birthday. She gave me these iris on her first visit here. She thought she brought me two varieties but it was Four! One for sure is from Uncle Ray's garden.  One is from Alma's garden. 

So much for lists

Uh, March 22nd I was going to start listing plants I have put in my garden. Well, my propensity for not following through in any journal is still the same as it has always been, poor! But it is a rainy day and I will be at my desk most of it so onward, to desk organization and garden lists! If only the card in my camera hadn't self destructed I would post a few pictures as well.