Laura and I got together today to do a second round of Spring planting, with non-frost hardy vegetables. The lettuce, spinach, and snow peas, after some worries with a serious frost, pushed through the soil. The seeds were in the ground nearly three weeks before germination, but they seemed to know when the perfect time to pop out was. The wisdom of nature is beautiful :)
After perusing our pre-purchased seed packets, we decided to plant swiss chard, green onions, radishes, and pole beans. We purchased used desk drawers to plant the beans, an old steel two basin kitchen sink for swiss chard, a large box shaped wall box for radishes, and a drilled 5 gallon bucket to plant onions. The total cost for all the boxes was $16, hell yeah.
On our way back from the re-store, we drove past an abandoned lot that I had seen a cool wooden pallet with legs in the evening before. We parked next to it with the engine running and loaded it turbo-style into the back of her van, while traffic rolled past, giggling the whole time. It felt mischievous, even though it was clearly abandoned.
Elmer is doing very well (my raspberry), as evidenced by the picture. The apple trees are budding, I fed them an organic bloom fertilzer around 3/20 to facilitate budding. All veggies planted today were in a 50/50 compost soil mix, organic of course.
