Since I have fallen down on my comitment of fully documenting this season’s gardening activities, I have some catching up to do.
Here are a few of the things that have been planted:
Cucumbers on May 4. I always seem to start cucumbers a little too early, hoping against hope that I will get an earlier harvest that way. The weather is so unseasonably warm, that maybe – just maybe – I will actually get lucky this year and not lose my first babies!
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- Cucumbers in Earthbox
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- Cucumbers in raised bed
While the cucumbers are getting started, the Dwarf Pak Choi is ready to harvest any day. This variety turned out to be smaller than I realized – they are actually harvested at just 2″ in height. I started a bunch of full size Pak Choi as well. Next year I think I’ll get a size between the two, small but not super miniature!
Pak Choi in Earthbox
I planted 3 small boxes (not earthboxes) with onion seedlings, that I will harvest as green onions, so I figure they won’t need a full size box to grow in.
The day before yesterday I spent some time weeding and thinning seedlings of carrots and beets. With the beets I actually thin and re-plant the thinned out seedlings. I believe they will do well with that, since beets can be raised and transplanted. The carrots had spotty germination, in places I had to thin them, but then there were spots of no germination so I reseeded those. Carrots do not take well to being transplanted, so it’s just thinning for them.