It's still pretty early to plant in this region so our options right now are limited. So here's the plan for tomorrow's planting:
Onions: scallions, yellow, white, red
Lettuce: Simpson seedless
Potatoes: red & white
Radishes
Beets - if Grandma and Grandpa want them
Turnips - if Grandma and Grandpa want them
I may take a chance planting some zucchini, since i rarely use all my seeds and if they don't make it, I'll just plant some more.
Here's the garden prior to tilling. The yellow things on the posts are insulators for the electric fence. We have tons of raccoons around here and this is the only way to keep them out, other than siting there all night with a 12 gauge.
Here's my garden barn. 2/3 is storage, 1/3 is relaxation.
This is my Troy-Bilt Horse model rototiller. I highly recommend this tiller to anyone. I really does all the work. They are commonly available on Ebay, but don't be shocked at the price. Mine is a 1982 model and is built really solidly. These tillers are still available new for around $2,800. they are essentially unchanged in their design after all these years. No, you can't buy one of these at Home Depot or Lowes! Anything at those stores with the Troy-Bilt name on it is junk, since MTD bought Troy-Bilt and trashed the name by sticking it on all the garbage they build.
Here's what I do in my spare time. I make heat.
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Wish I could be on the relaxation 1/3 of the barn more often. Quite a nice setup you've got there.
No spinach? That can go in early and you can put your carrots in too. You have a much bigger area to work with than I do. I just put in the order for the last of my seeds. They were only out of a pumpkin I wanted but I had purchased some seeds from a local grower (support local business) so I was covered. I have spinach and garlic coming up and will be putting in lettuce and carrots soon, followed by peas. I get starter plants from the Farmer's Market and that is where I will get onions and tomatos. I'm going to do tomotillos and jalepenos and serano peppers this year as well as broccoli.
Toy, I don't like to use pesticides so I generally don't grow things that have bug issues. Those would include spinach and anything in the broccoli family.
Thanks for reminding me about the carrots, I forgot to put them on my list.
This year we are going to try popcorn. last year I started to but then pulled them after realizing they would probably cross with my sweetcorn. We just took orville redenbacher's seed out of the jar and it grew like crazy. We aren't doing sweetcorn this year, even with the electric fence, the coons always find a way in and thrash the whole corn crop in one night. It's very disappointing, so we'll just buy it from the local farmers market.
Are you going to try anything else different, such as snow peas or mesclun lettuce? Mom
I agree on the no pesticides. I usually find little white eggs on the spinach, easy enough to pick off. Surprisingly, I don't find the bugs that lay the eggs. Hmmmm.
Toy
Aphids are the bugs that lay the eggs on Spinach. Peronally I do not care to eat them but I suppose if boiled they will not harm you. Gpa
My dad grew popcorn one year in the 1940s. Stored the unshelled corncobs in a bin in the basement. It popped fine at first but then dried out so much that it would not pop half way through the winter. Uncle Chuck
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