The Peas Are In!

It was an amazingly beautiful day and I could not let it pass without planting something. In the center foreground, under the unused satellite dish, is the pot that is now home to what I hope will soon be seven sugar pea pod plants. We haven't used the dish in about three years now, but this will be the third straight growing season it has provided a wonderful trellis-effect for my vegetables.

Peas can take some frost. Therefore, even if it turns off colder again, they will survive. If we have a hard frost threat, I'll just cover them over with some old sheets and they should be fine. 

Tomorrow is spring root vegetable day at my friend's house. Carrots, radishes and beets will all go in and hopefully be sprouting soon. I'll keep you posted.

Side note: The two pots in the background are the garlic I planted last fall. They haven't come back up yet but I'm hoping they survived the hard winter. The bottom corner left is some recycled celery that is doing great!

Planting Greens

I planted some mesclun today.

Ahhh...the first of hopefully many warm days in succession. We've had a few here and there, but we're looking at temperatures above 50 for the next week...except for that pesky 44 degrees that I am just hoping is someone's idea of a joke.

Anywho, my planting genes are busting at the seams and even though I had a long day and was pretty tuckered out, I managed to get one container of Mesclun greens and some sprouts started for selling. The photo below are some greens that we've been eating from most of the winter and are the same as I planted today. The new planting won't look like this for a month or so, but I'll be able to harvest some baby greens in about two weeks.

I grew these inside under my grow light all winter and moved them to the patio greenhouse a few weeks ago. See links below for the grow light and greenhouse information.

It is time...finally...to get busy growing your food!

Gardman greenhouse review
Hydrofarm 4 foot light review
Planting with the phases of the moon link