Some Transplanting

This weekend Dierdre and I transplanted all the beans and zucchini, and planted the green onions, onions, carrots, and some sweet potato chunks that had sprouted in the pantry! We'll see if they actually grow. Everything else is coming along quite nicely, with at least the cucumbers ready to go in by the coming weekend.

I also punched the holes in the irrigation tube and tested the system out. It is now operational and seems to work fairly well.

Irrigation

We did quite a bit of work this weekend. On Saturday we borrowed a rototiller and tilled all the beds. I also found free horse manure on CL, and the people even have a tractor to load up your truck. That was much easier and cheaper then buying 30 bags of the stuff at the big box store. So all that got mixed in with the tiller as well. Then today I installed drip line and a timer/filter/inline fertilizer deal. Should significantly simplify the watering and fertilizing process this year.

Here we go again

With some encouragement from Dierdre we decided to plant a big fall garden again this year. We started most of the seeds today. We planted:

• Contender Bush Beans
• Olympian Hybrid Cucumbers
• Dwarf Gray Sugar Peas (bush)
• Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce
• Legend Tomatoes
• Tyee Hybrid Spinach
• Black Beauty Zucchinis
• Calwonder 300 Bell Peppers
• Cilantro
• Oregano
• Thyme
• Aster, California Poppies, and Cosmos flowers

We have Imperator Carrots, Early Yellow Globe Onions, and Evergreen White Bunching Onions left to plant, but we are going to try and start them directly in the garden, so that we can plant all the seed (it would take way too many cups otherwise) When I did it in cups, as each seed just yields one carrot or onion, etc... I ended up with not too many of them. So this time all the seeds go in rows in the garden, and then we'll thin them out if necessary.

Hopefully next weekend I'll fertilize and till the garden, then we'll get that stuff planted.