Saturday, March 12, 2011

Monday Garden Club

We've had a mixed bag of successes and failures the last two weeks. 

Let's start with the failures.  Mice have eaten all the broccoli starts underneath the house.  The tomato plants look terrible and the eggplant and peppers never sprouted.  Basically, the whole system underneath the house isn't working.  Great.  What a waste!  Also, the peas we planted washed away with the 4 inches of rain we received.  Super.  Luckily, we have more than enough left over seed to replant.

Moving on to the successes...

We finished planting the srawberry beds.


We planted our potatoes in experimental bins.  The bins should last forever and we'll recycle them if they don't.  Let's hope the bin method is as successful as the traditional method we used last year.  Like the old method, we planted the potatoes a few inches deep.  We will mound up the soil in the bins as they grow. 


Spring is here.  It's been hot enough that the roquette we planted in fall bolted and is now too spicy to be edible!


The rhubarb that was ravaged by japanese beetles sprang back up...


and all the bulbs are coming up.  Let's hope the tulips aren't all eaten by deer this year before they show themselves like last year.


Daylilies

Nothing yet from the asparagus.  Crossing fingers!

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Blogger Mrsblocko said...

Well it is official! I'm super jealous again. My early blooming tulips have only just started peeking up out of the ground. Even though you've had a few mishaps, it still looks like your garden is going to be wonderful this year!

March 13, 2011 at 12:45 PM  

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