It’s a new year and a new garden. I’ve just finished getting everything planted. We’ve added 8 large beds, which includes one along the fenceline for raspberries, blackberries, currants, and honeyberries. Other new items this year: tomatillos, ground cherries, anaheim peppers, mizuna, arugula, beets, parsnips, rhubarb, stevia, gourds (luffa), kohlrabi. I was more careful to choose varieties of corn & tomatoes that will mature at different times, for increased length of harvest. I’m also being more careful to plant a few things at a time in successive intervals for the same reason.
My peppers and tomatoes did very well in potting blocks, first the 2″ then up-potted to the 4″. Broccoli and kale did very poorly in the soil blocks and died, until I changed the block recipe to include vermiculite and ground eggshells. Those succeeded much better.
We started a few things in a cold frame, and most of those did very well. We’ve eaten our first spinach and lettuce from that batch. We plan to do much more cold frame items for fall, as long into winter as things will grow, then start some other things much earlier the following spring (late winter). I have an idea we’ll have the grow lights in the house most of the time, successively starting more and more things all the time.
I don’t know if or how often I’ll keep up this blog. I am keeping much better records of my efforts on a program Tim created for me, where I can log dates planted, transplanted, how much yield, where planted, and more than anyone (including myself) may ever want to know, but it will be there if next year I wonder what I did this year that did or didn’t work.