Today I planted my first row of peas. I have discussed my pea planting plan before. This year I am planting two beds with two rows each. I have been saving pea seeds for several years now. I decided to clean house and use up all of my old seed. I generally plant somewhere between 2.5 and 4 ounces (dry) of seeds per row. I have a little over 12 ounces of seed left, so 3 ounces a row it is. I am going to plant one row a week on Wednesdays to try to spread out the season a bit. I am planting only my saved Penelope Pea seeds so they may all catch up to each other. Today is cool and rainy, but I prepped the bed two days ago with Garden Tone fertilizer and dug the rows. I soak my seeds over night so all I have to do is walk out there and pour them out.
Then I rake loose soil over the seeds until they are well covered and tamp it down with the rake so there is good soil contact. It is raining on and off today and will continue through the night. At some point I will sprinkle lettuce seeds along the side of each row to act as living mulch.
While I was out prepping the bed the other day I dug some carrots. For years now I have been growing carrots in containers which works very well, but with the thinning and daily watering, they are fairly labor intensive. Last year I ran a seed tape of YaYa carrots along the back of the Strawberry bed where the soil is rich and deep. Besides watering them now and then I completely ignored them. I have been digging them since fall. One of the last things I did last fall was rake loose mulch up over the tops of the carrots to insulate them from cold. Carrots protected thru the winter will grow exceptionally sweet and crisp. These carrots have been excellent. I don't think I will bother with the container carrots this year. I'll just run a double row of seed tape back there.
In the workshop everything is growing like crazy. I started my Indeterminant Tomato seeds today.
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| Marigolds transplanted 4 days ago |
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| Ornamental Hot Peppers and Dwarf and Micro Tomatoes |
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| Cabbages, Cauliflower and Broccoli. Lettuce to the right |
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| One of two rogue Petunia volunteers getting ready to bloom |
My next gardening chore will be pinching back these Dahlia seedlings.
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