Marty calls this my root garden
Garlic
The whole place looks like a war zone
Water plumbed to my wellhouse
Greenhouse
My future front yard sprinkler system
My propagation house or my wintering house is 10' x 16'
The first ducts in the plenum
Warm moist air goes in the plenum and heat is stored in the ground for nighttime
Garlic - I'm not expecting much with a spring planted crop. I have grown it before in the spring.
Momma goose
Chitting
Cool a dry spot
Water to the barn
The weather has been brutal for outside work. Rain showers keep rolling through, and the ground is saturated. It is raining with a dash of hail as I write.
The ground does drain much better now that the frost is gone out of it. Half a day of sun, and I can get back in it.
Progress on the greenhouse is slow. I had hoped to get it up and running by the end of the month, but I doubt I'll make it. It has been time to plant broccoli and cabbage in the greenhouse for a couple of weeks, but I'm just not ready. I can start my peppers anytime now too.
The week of March 20-27, 2011
- I got frost free water main pipe to: the barn, the west side lawn and gardens, the back property line, the new greenhouse, the potager, and the front yard.
- The geese have really kicked in setting. More than half of my hens are on clutches.
- Began on the greenhouse, got the posts in, and the subterranean heat system started.
- Started chitting my potatoes. Kim said she may have had potato scab when she grew potatoes here. I may have low PH which would contribute to potato scab. I have lots of worms, so my soil can't be that far off, if it is.
- Painted some plant labels for the potager
- Planted seeds
- Sweet Pea - Old Spice Mix (Baker Seed)
- Laurens Springer Grape Poppy - Papaver x Hybrid (Seedman)
- Crimson Peony Poppy - Papaver paeniflorum (Seedman)
- Giant Florist Pod Poppy - Papaver somniferum (Seedman)
- Garlic - Inchellium, Nootka Rose, Early Italian Purple (Irish Eyes) (suppose to plant garlic in the fall, spring planting yields small heads, so I'm going to use my spring planted garlic as a seed source for fall planting.)
7 comments:
lots of ripping stuff up...i thought u had to dig by shovel? That looks like a big almighty one- the place looks good w/some tree removal! weve had much rain here & i am sick of it...i have small garden plans but would like to get some sunshine so i can get busy
hehe i was right war zone :)it looks like you have a lot keeping you busy busy...kinda envious..kinda..lol
i wish i had half of your ambition!! looks like alot of work but will be wonderful!!! cant wait to see your place again when it is growing!!
Wow there is some sections on the yard there I don't even reconize...serious excavating going on. Sounds like you are gonna have a very busy schedule...and lots of veggies.
afganistan revisited! Sometimes you have to bomb it to get it right. Hope you used enough dinamite.
I will remind not to visit at night again. You could loose people in those trenches! Love the cats on the tractor seat! What a whale of a lot of work! It will be intersting to see it develope!
Wow, I'm jealous, very jealous!! :)
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