The snow peas are growing well! We have been thinning them out slowly as they grow.
This was what they looked last week:
This is what they look like this week:
The lettuces, kale, and broccoli are sprouting as well, in most of the places that we planted them.
Ash planted onions yesterday, in the two mounded rows pictured here.
The clover cover crop is looking LUSCIOUS!!
Still waiting for more plants to come from the nursery.
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THE FOLLOWING IS A POST THAT GOT SKIPPED, DATED OCTOBER 17th 2010!
Recently we have been watching things grow as we wait for more trees and wildflowers to come in.
We sowed some clover seed down in the circular bed in the driveway, hoping it would take, but there isn't enough sun.
But the clover in the trenches is doing great!
Ash dug two beds on the slope where we found a random plot of really great soil. Things are sprouting in that bed, but nothing is sprouting in the beds below. (unless you count the wheat from the straw...)
The old bed that my parent's used for vegetables is being used for snow peas now. No germination yet.
The beds I mentioned that aren't sprouting- Ash expanded them and mulched with leaves harvested from around the property. We may get no germination this season; these beds are sheet mulched, no-till beds designed to maximize worm activity for the next 6 months in preparation for planting the spring.
These are the compost bins my parents built ages ago... there is some nice humus in there. Amazing how much food waste comes from 6 adults!
We planted 130 tulip bulbs in a mulched bed on the driveway... should look very nice, every spring! Unless the Costco-quality bulbs fail, which is entirely possible. But it took hours to plant them, so it had better work.
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