Easily distracted by plants
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greenstormYesterday I interplanted the soaked gaspe corn into New York Red, Oaxacan, and Early Riser corns. I also gave it a little additional bed of its own. I should put the last couple kernels in with the atomic orange, I'll need to be strategic in how I protect those. The other beds were still under row cover.
I also planted out another row of tomatoes, the dwarf short-season ones from Victory seeds: uluru ochre, bandaberg rumball, dwarf saucy mary. I put some of my breeders in there too: carbon, KARMA purple, lime green salad, lucinda (I have lucinda in four seperate places and I'm so excited about it), ron's carbon copy, a couple others I can't remember offhand.
My deck is sagging, so my previous plan to put all my breeder tomatoes out there got curtailed a little bit; I don't want the weight of all the pots on there. I settled for putting out one of each, and I'll put some peppers out there but most of the peppers will end up in the greenhouse lean-to/birdshed/woodshed thing. That left the remainder of my breeding tomatoes to also go out into the garden, which incidentally has room since it has less corn than expected.
I also put in a bunch of the soaked and rooting painted mountain corn into the painted mountain blocks that had been picked apart by birds some before they were covered. I'm going to have a bunch of pretty narrow beds, since my row cover is only something like 5 or 6' wide, but that's ok.
I have a bunch of painted mountain sprouting corn seed left over. I'll need to find a place to tuck it where it won't get eaten, I guess I should use it as a test under those willow branches. I have a bunch of those branches and it would be good to know whether they work; it's just sad to reseed the completely picked-clean beds knowing they may be picked clean yet again. That or I could try it down by the house on the south slope of the garden, where I put my wheat trial last year. It has some shade there but why not?
My bouchard peas, which I increased last year, got mostly covered and seem to be doing pretty well. I'm excited about that; they're a really nice low-growing small soup-pea that seems like it should intercrop with corn or barley/wheat really well.
Meanwhile I made chocolate chip cookies with rye flour yesterday and they were good; it almost makes me want to challenge my worries about ergot. Even my triticale got ergot last year but it was 1) irrigated and 2) in a little shade. Maybe if I tried overwintering the rye and dryfarming it...?
We had that couple days of big heat and now we have some rain forecast and then more heat on the weekend; I'd be pretty happy to get alternating heat and rain all summer. My garden would love it and the wildfires might keep quiet. Fingers crossed.
Meanwhile I've got my old roses doing well in pots. I should get them into the ground within the next month so they can establish well to overwinter. First I need to cut down a whole bunch of aspen suckers, though. Every task leads back to several more tasks. There's an enormous maybe 5" aspen root going into my old garden just under the soil that was too big for me to easily cut through without digging around it. I suspect it thickened up fast while stealing irrigation water the last couple years. I expect to find many more as I go through that spot along the fence. I maybe should avoid putting the roses there where they'll compete? But the haskaps are already in that general area, and I would like to make it into a nice perennial garden.
The roses in question are R. cinnamomea (double), R. gallica officinalis/apothecary rose (pre-1300), Fantin Latour (1938), belle amour (pre-1940), Chloris (pre-1815), maiden's blush (~1400), Mme Plantier (1835), and Henri Martin (1863). I could interplant them with oaks on the north side of the fields, I suppose. Roses will do well there and I'm working on building a hedgerow-style mixed planting as of this year. They're further from the house than I'd prefer for regular enjoyment though.
I also planted out another row of tomatoes, the dwarf short-season ones from Victory seeds: uluru ochre, bandaberg rumball, dwarf saucy mary. I put some of my breeders in there too: carbon, KARMA purple, lime green salad, lucinda (I have lucinda in four seperate places and I'm so excited about it), ron's carbon copy, a couple others I can't remember offhand.
My deck is sagging, so my previous plan to put all my breeder tomatoes out there got curtailed a little bit; I don't want the weight of all the pots on there. I settled for putting out one of each, and I'll put some peppers out there but most of the peppers will end up in the greenhouse lean-to/birdshed/woodshed thing. That left the remainder of my breeding tomatoes to also go out into the garden, which incidentally has room since it has less corn than expected.
I also put in a bunch of the soaked and rooting painted mountain corn into the painted mountain blocks that had been picked apart by birds some before they were covered. I'm going to have a bunch of pretty narrow beds, since my row cover is only something like 5 or 6' wide, but that's ok.
I have a bunch of painted mountain sprouting corn seed left over. I'll need to find a place to tuck it where it won't get eaten, I guess I should use it as a test under those willow branches. I have a bunch of those branches and it would be good to know whether they work; it's just sad to reseed the completely picked-clean beds knowing they may be picked clean yet again. That or I could try it down by the house on the south slope of the garden, where I put my wheat trial last year. It has some shade there but why not?
My bouchard peas, which I increased last year, got mostly covered and seem to be doing pretty well. I'm excited about that; they're a really nice low-growing small soup-pea that seems like it should intercrop with corn or barley/wheat really well.
Meanwhile I made chocolate chip cookies with rye flour yesterday and they were good; it almost makes me want to challenge my worries about ergot. Even my triticale got ergot last year but it was 1) irrigated and 2) in a little shade. Maybe if I tried overwintering the rye and dryfarming it...?
We had that couple days of big heat and now we have some rain forecast and then more heat on the weekend; I'd be pretty happy to get alternating heat and rain all summer. My garden would love it and the wildfires might keep quiet. Fingers crossed.
Meanwhile I've got my old roses doing well in pots. I should get them into the ground within the next month so they can establish well to overwinter. First I need to cut down a whole bunch of aspen suckers, though. Every task leads back to several more tasks. There's an enormous maybe 5" aspen root going into my old garden just under the soil that was too big for me to easily cut through without digging around it. I suspect it thickened up fast while stealing irrigation water the last couple years. I expect to find many more as I go through that spot along the fence. I maybe should avoid putting the roses there where they'll compete? But the haskaps are already in that general area, and I would like to make it into a nice perennial garden.
The roses in question are R. cinnamomea (double), R. gallica officinalis/apothecary rose (pre-1300), Fantin Latour (1938), belle amour (pre-1940), Chloris (pre-1815), maiden's blush (~1400), Mme Plantier (1835), and Henri Martin (1863). I could interplant them with oaks on the north side of the fields, I suppose. Roses will do well there and I'm working on building a hedgerow-style mixed planting as of this year. They're further from the house than I'd prefer for regular enjoyment though.
