Green Thumb
Got a large number of plants for $30. We're going to plant Rhubarb - as an ornamental for the first two years (ok, maybe just for the first year) and then to harvest for 7 - 15 years afterwards (I've read different things about the general life span of each plant). We're also going to replace some of our ornamental grasses with rainbow chard by the riverside in our backyard!
I got a lot of plants because I now have a small plot of rich soil to use at Seattle University. Yep: my job gave me a pea-patch. My peas and beans went in on Friday. And I'm itching to plant the rest of the plot. I purchased several each of the following plant starts: broccoli, cauliflower, Thai basil, Italian basil, zucchini, Brussels sprouts, 'Detroit Red' beets, and high yeilding pickling cucumbers.
The starts need to be hardened off this week. So that means each morning bringing them outside and then taking them inside at night. But by the end of the week, I'll be able to bring them into work and plant them in the 3+ inches of very rich compost that the grounds crew laid on our plots. It needs to be worked in, but the soil beneath isn't too hard to manipulate. I'm worried that it's a bit clay ridden (that soil underneath) so we'll see how the beets do. There's only 6 of them anyway.
Meanwhile - this week at work, I need to find time to go over to the garden and water my peas and my beans...especially the beans...I started sowed them as seeds.
We're also looking at getting grapes, blueberries, and huckleberries for our home yard, maybe even a fruiting tree (with several varieties of fruit graphed onto one base). I want to have most of the plants in my yard be edible or fruit bearing. Tough to do with the sun we get - but it should be enough in the areas that we want it in.
I got a lot of plants because I now have a small plot of rich soil to use at Seattle University. Yep: my job gave me a pea-patch. My peas and beans went in on Friday. And I'm itching to plant the rest of the plot. I purchased several each of the following plant starts: broccoli, cauliflower, Thai basil, Italian basil, zucchini, Brussels sprouts, 'Detroit Red' beets, and high yeilding pickling cucumbers.
The starts need to be hardened off this week. So that means each morning bringing them outside and then taking them inside at night. But by the end of the week, I'll be able to bring them into work and plant them in the 3+ inches of very rich compost that the grounds crew laid on our plots. It needs to be worked in, but the soil beneath isn't too hard to manipulate. I'm worried that it's a bit clay ridden (that soil underneath) so we'll see how the beets do. There's only 6 of them anyway.
Meanwhile - this week at work, I need to find time to go over to the garden and water my peas and my beans...especially the beans...I started sowed them as seeds.
We're also looking at getting grapes, blueberries, and huckleberries for our home yard, maybe even a fruiting tree (with several varieties of fruit graphed onto one base). I want to have most of the plants in my yard be edible or fruit bearing. Tough to do with the sun we get - but it should be enough in the areas that we want it in.