Monday, March 10, 2014

And so it begins...

The 2014 season is underway. With the help of The Littlest Giant, the green leafy veggies (lettuce and spinach) are in the ground. Also the potato bags in the front of the house have potatoes in them this year (instead of pumpkins). They are red potatoes donated by my neighbor's son who had more than he needed. Eyes sprouted and planted.

There is a good deal of work that I need to do on the driveway bed as the wood has rotted or eaten away. Good thing I have all that extra plank wood lying around in the shed. And they said I was mad for keeping it MAD I TELL YOU!!!! MUAH HA HA!!!!!

Here are some pictures, they are in Ye Olde Pumpkin Patch this year as there were pumpkins in there last year:

The lettuce is to the right, spinach to the left. Littlest Giant to the top. :)

Everything bedded down nicely

Monday, March 3, 2014

Baby its cold outside

Ok here it is March 3rd, 2014 and we are getting 8 inches of snow. The strange thing is this is how winter is supposed to be in the Virginia Suburbs, not the warmth that I had grown accustomed to over the last 14 years. Its amazing how climate change makes you start to think that warm is normal. In years previous I had already had my beds made and the grow-house out. Its supposed to go down to 3 degrees tonight.

So with that having been said, looks like I'm going to wait until April to start everything. Its just too cold and I am afraid that if I proceed as normal (read: what climate change has led me to believe as normal) noting will grow, or everything will be stunted like they were last year. I just ordered my seeds, and I got some seed potatoes yesterday from my neighbors, but we're just gonna have to wait.

Maybe I have been planting too early since my garden essentially goes to seed by late August anyway and the first frost isn't until November. So let's play Mother Nature's game her way and I will wait until April 5th or so to start the grow-house. Hopefully the soil will be warm enough for planting in May. Except the lettuce and spinach, those guys go in as soon as the ground thaws.

And yes, looking into chicken coops. Its already too late because the chicks won't give me any eggs until October (which means none), but if I get them in October, then they would be ready by next spring. I think I'm going to need 4. I already picked out the name for one of them: Billina.