That's a lot of potatoes
Jun. 17th, 2020 04:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greenstormSo my ex-coworker gave me several crates of seed potatoes: amarosa, Russian purple, and pacific russet. Basically I'm using the new soil to put them in, where the berry bed and asparagus will go. So, once again I am using potatoes as groundbreakers. Even at 1' spacing in a wide bed (3-4') this is a lot of potatoes.
Once again I wish I was having a thing in the fall so folks could come help me with a pig and pick potatoes out of the ground for me. This actually, if I keep it watered and hilled, would be enough to support another person or two here calorically.
In other news the greenhouse fluid seeding carrots came up well, as I think did the parsnips, but maybe not the other outdoor carrots. Beans are up.
Asparagus has been planted in flats; if all goes well I can transplant it where the potatoes come out in the fall.
I have a bunch of harvesting to do: stinging nettles and mint for tea, lamb's quarters starting to come ready for the freezer. Also I need to string lines for the tomatoes, which are starting to flower. Believe it or not, I'm still getting squash in the ground (and it's finally warm enough).
I also need to redo the pig fence to make my neighbour happy.
But, the garden is pretty great right now. It's full of promise. It's a good feeling. The tomatoes in the greenhouse are so, so happy looking.
I've also almost got the deck done: I add a pepper or tomato here or there are I find a new bucket. It's such a huge deck that it still feels pretty empty. The purpose of plants out there is to cool the house, basically to intercept the lowering sun with foliage and add some evaporative cooling from leaves. The plants need to get a little bigger for that to work.
I cleaned out the brooder today, it had some lovely quail compost in it that I topped up the pots with. Hopefully it won't burn them.
Ooof. Warming up in here. Time to go outside.
Once again I wish I was having a thing in the fall so folks could come help me with a pig and pick potatoes out of the ground for me. This actually, if I keep it watered and hilled, would be enough to support another person or two here calorically.
In other news the greenhouse fluid seeding carrots came up well, as I think did the parsnips, but maybe not the other outdoor carrots. Beans are up.
Asparagus has been planted in flats; if all goes well I can transplant it where the potatoes come out in the fall.
I have a bunch of harvesting to do: stinging nettles and mint for tea, lamb's quarters starting to come ready for the freezer. Also I need to string lines for the tomatoes, which are starting to flower. Believe it or not, I'm still getting squash in the ground (and it's finally warm enough).
I also need to redo the pig fence to make my neighbour happy.
But, the garden is pretty great right now. It's full of promise. It's a good feeling. The tomatoes in the greenhouse are so, so happy looking.
I've also almost got the deck done: I add a pepper or tomato here or there are I find a new bucket. It's such a huge deck that it still feels pretty empty. The purpose of plants out there is to cool the house, basically to intercept the lowering sun with foliage and add some evaporative cooling from leaves. The plants need to get a little bigger for that to work.
I cleaned out the brooder today, it had some lovely quail compost in it that I topped up the pots with. Hopefully it won't burn them.
Ooof. Warming up in here. Time to go outside.
