Harvest Update
21 Apr 2025 12:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ursulas_alcoveYes, so soon, we are harvesting. I cut a little over a half pound of spinach yesterday. Chrono picked a pound of asparagus today. She thinks there could be another half pound in 2 days. Lettuce will also be ready in two days.
I think it is time to put away the frost blankets. They need to be off of the plants at a bare minimum. There are three sets outside. None are in good shape. The backyard strawberry bed got weeded. It isn't flowering yet. I need to paint stones red soon to be pretend strawberries. It helps train baby robins to not eat my berries. It worked last year. I am running late. I painted them last year on the 17th of April.
The front strawberries already have blooms. Those are ever-bearing strawberries while the backyard ones are June bearing. The onions I grew from seed have been planted amongst the June bearing strawberries. There were not that many. The Utah Sweet Spanish onions got planted in front and a little up the side in the cinderblock pockets. The Yellow Granax are short day onions. Those were not appropriate for my area but I planted them anyway. They went along the back cinderblocks. The Red onions, Flat of Italy, went in the bed proper since they should be wider. The biggest achievement of the day was digging a deep hole for a cherry tree. Even though it was a bare root tree, it is in bloom now. The second tree has yet to be planted. Cherries work best in twos for complete germination. Mine are Montgomery (sour) cherries. So, yay! stuff got done.
The lowest temperature over the next ten days will be 46 degrees F. So many plants need to get hardened off before being planted in the ground. The fact that I emptied one tray means I get to bring up another from the basement to take its place on the front steps. I'd like to get the Celosia planted soon although they aren't big yet. I am trying to decide what will go in front of them. They are yellow, orange and red. I have peach colored snapdragons or red salvia, or copper colored strawflowers. I also have peach strawflowers. I thought I'd put nasturtiums in front of those to create a tiered-effect. I have both red nasturtiums and orange. I also have marigolds. Decisions, decisions. . .
I think it is time to put away the frost blankets. They need to be off of the plants at a bare minimum. There are three sets outside. None are in good shape. The backyard strawberry bed got weeded. It isn't flowering yet. I need to paint stones red soon to be pretend strawberries. It helps train baby robins to not eat my berries. It worked last year. I am running late. I painted them last year on the 17th of April.
The front strawberries already have blooms. Those are ever-bearing strawberries while the backyard ones are June bearing. The onions I grew from seed have been planted amongst the June bearing strawberries. There were not that many. The Utah Sweet Spanish onions got planted in front and a little up the side in the cinderblock pockets. The Yellow Granax are short day onions. Those were not appropriate for my area but I planted them anyway. They went along the back cinderblocks. The Red onions, Flat of Italy, went in the bed proper since they should be wider. The biggest achievement of the day was digging a deep hole for a cherry tree. Even though it was a bare root tree, it is in bloom now. The second tree has yet to be planted. Cherries work best in twos for complete germination. Mine are Montgomery (sour) cherries. So, yay! stuff got done.
The lowest temperature over the next ten days will be 46 degrees F. So many plants need to get hardened off before being planted in the ground. The fact that I emptied one tray means I get to bring up another from the basement to take its place on the front steps. I'd like to get the Celosia planted soon although they aren't big yet. I am trying to decide what will go in front of them. They are yellow, orange and red. I have peach colored snapdragons or red salvia, or copper colored strawflowers. I also have peach strawflowers. I thought I'd put nasturtiums in front of those to create a tiered-effect. I have both red nasturtiums and orange. I also have marigolds. Decisions, decisions. . .
