Monday, March 24, 2014

More digging and planting

All eight bags of stuff are mixed in the ground! I'm proud of myself for not letting it sit around forever.

On the south side of the house, the two bins of compost from the compost site were dumped. One by the water faucet and the other by the rain barrel near the screened in porch.
I used the pitchfork and turned the soil over in those areas. By the rain barrel there were lilies coming up!

By the faucet, I planted yellow onion sets. I can't remember if I planted them deep or not. The packaging said to plant three inches deep for green onions and not very deep for bigger onions.

In the fenced in box garden, I added the bin full of leaves and other stuff that I had taken from the compost pile.

I planted four rows of beets. The two rows closest to the house were the early variety. The other two rows were the other variety.

I planted some onions in there too.

The back box garden got two bags of stuff - compost and peat hummus in half of it. I planted two rows of onions - one deep and close together. The other more shallow and farther apart.
(The other half has radish and spinach growing.)

I planted sugar snap peas to the west of the compost bin. These seeds were in the garage all winter. I soaked them since Friday in water. The seeds had plumped up but they were not sprouting quite yet. I don't know if they will come up or not.

I watered with a hose from the rain barrel the peas on the garden. I didn't completely soak them because it will freeze tonight and I didn't know if that would hurt them. I carried buckets of water to other places that I have planted because it's not rained for a week.

Not sure what other spring garden I will do. I have some onion sets left. Have lots of beet seeds.

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