Its a beautiful spring like day here today. I noticed in the last week some spring bulbs starting to push through the ground. I decided to offically declare it the first day of spring in this little valley and started my spring planting.
I gathered all my seeds and every concievable planting container I could find and spent the morning in my little green house making new beginnings. So far I have planted the following:
- Chinese cabbage
- Brocoli
- Cauliflower
- Tomatoes (3 different varieties)
- Lettuce
- Parsnip
- Onions
- Grey Pumpkins
- Gaint Atlantic Pumpkins (really looking forward to those)
- Buttercup Pumpkins
- Butternut Pumpkins (can ya tell I like pumpkins?)
- Honeydew Melons (love them, soooo sweet)
- Yellow and Red peppers
- Large bottle gourds
- 3 varieties of small fruited gourds
- 3 varieties of large fruited gourds
...and soon as I have constructed some anti-blackbird wire netting covers (which is my next mission after this coffee and blog break) I'll be putting in...
- Zucchini
- Radishes
- Spring Onions
- Climbing Beans
- and peas.
I also started off 3 potatoe towers (in old car tires) with three different varieties of potatoes. Thats kind of an experiment to see which kind will produce best when grown this way.
All that compost making is paying off. I haven't had to buy any yet and the home made liquid organic plant food from the worm farm is being used, in a very weak dilution, on everything.
2:53:10 PM 
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