Today isST . PATRICK ’S DAY- TIME TO PLANT PEAS , SPINACH AND ARUGULA.I always plant them right around now and utilise the vacation as a reminder . I stayed home today to recoup after putting Butch down . Getting my hands in the soil is always ground for me . lot of things to do right now regarding gardening . Here are some of the thing I did today .
COLDFRAME - I inspected the rabbit damage to see if the prickly-seeded spinach seedling are salvageable . All but one of them are get going to grow back from the crown which were undamaged . I establish seeds of the following in the coldframe :
SPINACH - Bloomsdale-45 day in the other half of the coldframe .
CHARD - I did n’t know ( or remember ) that chard is a biennial ( meaning two years ) but spends it ’s second year mostly acquire to produce source which is why they never seem to grow as prominent of folio the 2nd twelvemonth . I will pull them and plant more chard seeds - white kind .
OUTSIDE RAISED BED - Checked the outside provoke beds by the home . Last spill I I dug some old horse manure into one of them and it looks heavy . I planted the follow seeds and cover them with row cover to keep the rabbits from them :
PEAS - Dwarf Grey peas and Oregon Sugar Pod II-60 days
SPINACH - Bloomsdale-45 day and a giant variety of spinach plant ( there I go again ! ) called Monstrueux de Viroflay-50 days
BUTTERHEAD LETTUCE - Yugoslavian Red-40 days
MESCLUN - Provencal mix-40 days
CILANTRO
CUTTING LETTUCE - a new first-rate red variety of called Sea of Red-40 days
ROMAINE - Paris Island Cos-68 days
ARUGULA - Apollo-30 daylight
IN THE SECOND RAISED BED - Took out the last of the carrot from drop that overwintered . They should be extra sweet ! The garlic I bought at SF Farmers Market last fall is derive up in it . gently dug in some Yum - Yum Mix in the remainder of the bed as I ’m going to plant more carrots , common beet and shallots which are heavy confluent and want some extra fertiliser especially if you are putting them back in the same area . I will plant :
CARROTS - Purple Haze and Danvers
BEETS - Detroit Dark Red-60 days , Bulls Red Beet-50 days and Early Wonder beet-48 days
DUTCH SHALLOTS - picked up some Dutch Red Shallots while I wait for the French shallots to arrive . Should be a good taste test at harvest time metre .
MAIN GARDEN - I hooked up the hose and watered the strawberries and the Asparagus officinales . Underneath the layer of dried leaf in the strawberry seam I see new farewell start to produce from the crowns . The asparagus is either drained from our very cold wintertime or they have n’t start acquire yet , we will see ..
