by A.J. Coltrane
The backyard garden hasn’t yet fully transitioned to “summer”. Maybe next week. The whiskey barrels have some energetic flower starts — Territorial Seed’s Bee Mix, Bug Mix, and Nasturtiums (Jewel Mix).
As of March 2nd, these containers only had gravel in the bottom. They’re in the coldest, shadiest part of the yard that will eventually see good sun as the season progresses:
(Front to back — a container of Bee Mix, a container of Bug Mix, a container of 1/2 Bee Mix and 1/2 Bug Mix, a container of Nasturtiums. We’re now planted Marigolds – “Brocade Mix” in the spots that haven’t germinated.)
Next, a close-up picture of the Nasturtiums. We planted about nine seeds. Seven of those germinated. It looks like seven plants is going to be plenty:
The raspberry plant (with a blooming rhododendron behind it):
The raspberry plant needs some pruning. I’m holding off until I’m dead certain nothing is going to grow out of the older stems.
As far as everything else: The mache and chard bolted at the first sign of warm weather. I’m hoping we can harvest mache seed at some point — they’re blooming now. The carrots continue to size up, and it looks like we should be able to harvest those in the next 30 days.
The garlic will need to be harvested in the next 30 days to make room for the summer vegetables as well:
The actual work on the backyard garden starts soon.
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I think you need to make some Garlic Hummus with all that garlic or figure out a good ways to roast it. MMMM
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Did you start the garlic from seeds or from cloves?
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The garlic is from cloves that we originally received from a neighbor in the summer of 2014. The two heads became about 12-15 heads last spring (2015). The best of those were cycled back in for what is pictured — something like 60-70 plants.
The bunch onions and basically everything else “winter” was started from seed.
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