Sunday Seeds & Sprouts 2012: Week 8

15 Sunday Apr 2012

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food, garden, gardening, kitchen garden, potager, radishes, raised beds, sunchokes, sustainable living, vegetable garden

This week has been busy in our garden, both our potager and landscaping. I think the muscles in my back are proving that we overdid it… (Hubster said that I’m not allowed to have any sore muscles or back pain while I’m in my 20’s….)

Indoors: I sowed more seeds; lettuces, cabbage, and even some indoor radishes (I want to see how they perform indoors and might try to grow some year round…). I started more romaine and celery from kitchen scraps, and removed he potatoes from my kitchen windows sill to make room…

Outdoors:Hubster built me four new raised beds, one 1’x2′ for my Jerusalem artichokes (aka: sunchokes) and three 1.5’x1.5′ for my sweet potatoes, potatoes and blue potatoes.

Small Raised Beds

In the largest raised bed I planted some cauliflower and celery starters I purchased from the local garden store. We had a few nights when temperatures dropped and frost hit, but I was prepared. I used glass bowls and vases as mini greenhouses to protect my tender plants.

Cauliflower & Celery

Mini Green Houses

This week’s weather look fantastic again (tomorrow is supposed to reach 88°F!!!), so I’m hoping my back feels better soon. I want to get a lot of outdoor work done…

Week 7: More Peas, Carrots, Radishes
Week 6: I took a break!!!!
Week 5: More Tomatoes, Peppers & Lettuce
Week 4: Carrots, Radishes, Peas & Sugar Snap Peas

Ravenous for Radishes

Week 3: Raised Beds
Week 2: Celery & Scallions
Week 1: Tomatoes, Peppers, Sweet Potatoes & Potatoes

What progress is your garden making?

Sunday Seeds & Sprouts 2012: Week 3

11 Sunday Mar 2012

Posted by Young Wifey in Gardening

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gardening, kitchen garden, potager, raised beds

This weekend was all about getting my raised beds built! Saturday morning, Hubster drove to the sawmill to purchase raw lumber for my raised beds. Today the weather was glorious! This morning while I was working on my urn planters, Hubster & Pumpkin were busy cutting and building my boxes. We decided to start with two 4′ x 4′ boxes and one 4′ x 8′ box. The location of them is a bit awkward, because our property is so hilly and we get the best sun in the front. Once we establish that this layout works, we’ll incorporate a few more beds and fruit trees.

Raised Beds

After a few cloudy days, my tomatoes showed specks of mold in a few spots of the soil! Oh no! I quickly removed the dome lid to give them more air and brewed a cup of strong chamomile tea. Once the tea cooled, I gave the soil a good spritz and again the next day. The mold was gone and it was sunny again, so the soil was able to dry up some. Let’s hope I side-stepped this obstacle. The celery is starting to show new growth, the potatoes are steady, the pepper plants are finally popping through the soil and the scallions have 4″ of growth in only one week!