Wow! Where did May go? Just a blur of planting and tilling and mulching and planting and tilling and now...weeding and hoeing and planting and etc etc...

Things are looking pretty good. Carrots are up which is always a challenge. The green peas and the snow peas are climbing. Broccoli and cabbage and kale and kohlrabi are all at the right stage. Bok Choi looks promising. Spinach is on quite well as some of you are getting some now. Lettuce is slower than expected but Leaf and Buttercrunch and Romaine are all coming up. Purple Top Turnips are coming along. Potatoes look very good and are well on their way.

Green and yellow beans are planted. Beets and Radish are up!

Just starting to plant tomatoes and will plant some squash and maybe melon tomorrow. Cucumbers, Zucchini and Pumpkin are in the ground.

Celery is planted and celeriac probably tomorrow.

So all in all everything is looking promising but Mother Nature can change things at any time!

My one downer is the eggplant seedlings are not looking too good. Infested with aphids and just not looking promising.

So far we have had rhubarb, spinach and herbs. Rhubarb has been picked very heavy so will hold back on more for a week or so. Hopefully lettuce & chard will pick up the pace and be ready in a couple of weeks!

It Is A Little Busy Out Here!

May is rocketing past and there just does not seem to be enough hours in the day. The house is full of seedlings waiting their turn to be hardened off for outdoors. Just watering and feeding the inside plants is quite a little job!

Some of course have outgrown their original planting trays so need to be re potted into larger pots.

Out in the garden planting, watering, feeding and mulching are in full swing. Also more tilling to be done. Peas, beets, purple top turnips, radish, onion, garlic, leaf lettuce, romaine lettuce, buttercrunch lettuce, spinach, mizuna, joi choi, arugula, kohlrabi,chard, cabbage, broccoli & kale are all up out of the ground! The first red potatoes are starting to show. Carrots have not come up as yet. Bunching onions are not up yet.

Much more planting to come however. In fact more of just about everything plus of course the peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, celery, celeriac, squash, cucumbers, pumpkins.

So if all goes well today I will be planting broccoli seedlings, onion seedlings and watering, feeding and mulching and......

Where Did April Go!

April was a very busy month. The soil dried out much earlier than usual which allowed for earlier than usual planting. In some cases I am almost a month ahead of normal.

Peas, Spinach, Pak Choi, Arugula, Beet Greens, Chard, Leaf Lettuce, Mizuna & Garlic are all up and coming now.

Broccoli, Cabbage, Purple Top Turnips, Onions, Kale, Kohlrabi, Romaine Lettuce, Potatoes, Mache & Peppergrass are in the ground.

Seedlings in the house are growing rapidly and some will soon move to the shed.

The recent wet weather has slowed down further garden preparation work until things dry out a bit.

It's a good start. Perhaps the best since we started this project but as Mother Nature gives, she takes away. After all she is a woman and reserves the right to change her mind. Anytime she wants to!