This afternoon we put in a half row of potatoes (red and white). I think we had about 20 seed potatoes. We bought whole disease-free potatoes and cut them into pieces, each with at least 1 sprouting eye, no smaller than a golf ball. We buried them about 5" deep and 12" apart, then covered with 6" of hay.
We also put in about 10' of peas (Wando). We spaced them about 3" apart on alternating sides. After 2 weeks we'll sow the rest of the row, so our harvesting is more manageable. And once we have some plants started we'll put a trellis up for the peas to climb.
We also planted 4 rhubarb roots in our raspberry patch. We couldn't decide where to put something as "permanent" as rhubarb. They were pretty dried out, so we'll see how they manage.
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From my experience growing up with rhubarb, you need to take off the quotes from "permanent". My dad moved the rhubarb plants around a couple times when an addition was built, and when it took over the flower garden, and each time, it moved successfully, but also continued growing in the old place, and survived multiple attempts to kill it completely in the old place.
ReplyDeleteI am so glad we live across the street from you and will get to sample the fruits of your labors....
ReplyDeleteI'm a member of two community gardens this year. I've got some sprouts going inside the house for tomatoes, cucumbers, broccoli and brussels sprouts. Up here in northern Mass we risk frost planting most plants before the end of April. I'd like to try those veggies along with peas, potatoes and sweet corn. I'll be keeping up with your blog. This is my first year so I expect to have many hard lessons to learn.
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