First Harvests

First Harvests May 18, 2011

I’ve been working in my garden since mid February, when we got a warm spell and I turned the compost (stinky!) and cleaned out last years dead plants from the raised beds. I started planting in late February (see, I really am an optimist!) and early March. Peas, lettuces, radishes, spinach, asian greens, collards, and kale.

In April I planted carrots, more lettuce and radishes and leeks, and this month, so far, I’ve planted more spinach and lettuces, parsley, sconzera (an experiment in heirloom vegetable varities) more peas (I planted them too early and had bad germination. Bad, Bad, Optimist!) and alpine strawberry seeds (everybody keep your fingers crossed on that last one.) I was going to be planting tomato transplants that my friend picked up for me down at the Ann Arbor farmers market, but unfortunately that’s not going to be happening:
Rabid Squirrel Attack!!!

Umm, did I mention that I’m not overly fond of that particular species of rodent?

They dig up my seedlings, and destroy my transplants, eat holes in my tomatoes and peppers and generally wreak havoc. So I have to get new transplants. 🙁

Anyway, I’m excited about the garden, and I cleaned the shed (another nasty job.) My DH bought me a load of mulch for Mother’s Day (Love you honey!) and I’m determined to keep up on the weeds this year. We’ll see how the reality lines up with my plans…



Browse Our Archives