Early May Garden Plant Inventory

It's a good time to take stock--what's growing and what is not.

In the foreground you can see the Big D, with plastic on the unplanted part. The plastic is part of my reuse recycle  plan.  We sometimes cover our round bales with plastic bale covers.  They add significantly to the expense of hay baling and I thought I would make them do double duty.  It has seemed to work--but it was annoying and time consuming to put them out and keep them from blowing away.  There are now rows of green things in the brown area.

So--here's  my boring plant inventory:

I. Fruit

  Old strawberry patch-with tons of new plants and of course some of the original 4 year old plants. The old patch is weedy/grassy and I will have to resort to a chemical fix.

60 new strawberry plants

5  20 year old blueberry plants, plus 6 new ones that I am propagating from the old

1 Yellow Delicious apple tree

1 Winesap apple tree

1 Montmorency Sour Cherry tree

6 Logan Black Raspberry canes--only two I'm sure is alive

3 neglected grape vines

2.Herbs

Sage

Mint

Oregano

Italian Parsley ?(new seeding, not sure they are growing)

3.First planting vegetables

9 Iceberg Lettuce plants

6 Red Sails Lettuce plants of original 9(we've eaten two, one died)

9 Broccoli plants

8 cabbage plants(Flat Dutch)

120 (apx) hills potatoes-21 Red Pontiacs, 10 Kennebec, 8 Norgold visibly growing, 

20 white onions

Asparagus--old and new patches

4.  Second Planting Vegetables

40 Oregon Sugar Pod Peas-hope to trellis them today

45 Green Arrow Bush Peas

116 Early Vienna Kohlrabi-got carried away planting them!

23 white onions

78 Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce plants(gave some away)

68 Cherry Belle Radishes

? carrot seedlings--should get them thinned today

? Detroit Dark Red Beets --also need thinned

5.  Third Planting-most of these are up--but some still germinating

a double row green arrow peas

bed planting of Early Sugar Snap

Bloomsdale Long Standing Spinach

Wando peas

Swiss Chard

Kale

Bibb Lettuce

Kohlrabi

Sigh.. I think that is mostly it.  There are some volunteer sunflowers growing,  and I have all the warm season stuff like beans, cukes, squash, maybe okra.  Sweet corn will also go  in the field later.

We'll see how it goes.  I am not realy a gardener--I am a planter.  It is more fun to paint the easel than it is to frame and hang it.  Weeding, spraying, thinning, watering and timely harvesting is a struggle for me.  

Happy gardening and blogging to all.

Woodland Treasure

Did Koko know we would find supper? What a fun time we had.

Gardening gone to the dogs

Koko's asking "let's go for a walk?" . She's saying "Gardenings all well and good, but it's been raining, the soil is muddy and it is more fun in the woods". And please, please don't go back in the house. and sit in front of that machine. Just bring the camera and we can go to the woods, and see neat things that other people will never get to see.

The wind is warm and balmy. The water is running in the streams. There are birds to hear, birds to see, and birds to chase. You can look at wildflowers, maybe find some morels, and walk across ravines with me.



We're going to the woods. Gardening will wait for another day. Have a beautiful weekend.