Trying to play catch up with blogging about the garden. Here is a list of dates around the time Chris managed to plant and work on the garden. This spring has been so unbelievably cold, rainy, and windy. We even had to start a fire in our woodstove April 30th!! There are no leaves on the trees yet and some of the trees finally have some buds.
April 14???(either before April break or during) Re-potted tomatoes
April 21- Moved manure and tilled the garden beds.
April 22-planted Broccoli, snap peas, cabbage, and carrots
April 24- Purchased blueberries, grapes, 2 peach tree, and 1 apple tree.
April 29th- Re-potted some peppers and eggplant
May 4th -Planting onions and leeks and re-potted the rest of the peppers. Snap peas are starting to germinate.
Chris also has moved our Asparagus, Strawberries, Rhubarb, and Hops to new beds. The peach trees have a new home where the asparagus and strawberries were. We'll see how the strawberries do, but we are looking to get a new crop of June bearing ones. The ones we currently have are ever-bearing and really don't produce that much fruit. The hops's new home is just 4 feet from their previous spot. The pergola for the hops is being transformed into a chicken coop and the hops will have a trellis that leaves to the coop to grow on. Hops are beneficial to chickens and the chickens will eat the Japanese beetles that attack the hops every year.
Hoping for some warmer weather to get the soil heated up!
I'll take some pictures to post this week.
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