Welcome Spring!

Here's what we've been up to in the past week or so. Paul and I made a variation on seed tapes by using a flour paste to attach spinach (space and green 7), radish (purple plum) and kohlrabi (white and purple vienna) seeds to half sheets of paper towel. On Friday, March 18 I placed them in the garden and covered them with compost. I also planted arugula, mesclun mix and dill in bed 1.




Also, I've been spending time making garden decorations. I can't wait until the wildflowers spring up around my welding class project. I planted purple coneflowers, California poppies and forget-me-nots around it. The red-twig dogwoods behind it survived the winter.

What's been goin' on

Bloody Mary Mix (aka V-8)

A mix of tomatoes, onion, zucchini, beets, carrot, garlic, and roasted jalapenos.

Fruits of the garden

Compost bin fixed and brussel sprouts

Today Sabrina and I fixed the compost bin. About a month ago we noticed that the side of it had been chewed, creating a hole large enough for a small rodent to enter the bin. Sabrina worked hard at mixing and moving the compost and then we attached the metal plate with screws. Let's hope it holds.

In other garden news, the brussel sprouts are growing slowly, but still growing. The fresh planting of greens seems to be doing well so far.

Snake or fast-moving worm?

This morning when I went to water the tomatoes, something caught my eye - a long, quick moving gray thing that slithered away along the tall grass next to the tomato bed. It moved more gracefully and quickly than many of the worms I've see this year, so that makes me think it was a snake. If so, I have no idea what kind, but I hope it likes mice.

Planting new greens

This weekend and this morning I planted a new round of mesclun greens, arugula and spinach. We'll see what comes up.