Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Work Days- March 31

Every day has seen a little work: crops planted, paths mulched, construction done.
Mentally slapping my hand whenever I consider putting my hot crops into the ground before Easter Monday. The wait is my response to climate change.
So:
Construction:
All trellises are up.
Back fence corner is weeded and had its landscape timber moved in.
V. braced the stairstep planter and we cleared out beneath it, laid down weedblock and mulch.
He put up my wrought-iron hanger by the shrine, and another smaller one on the long post of the stair-step.
Added more items to the passive heap and more leaves to the leafmold holder.
We tied back the althea with nylon rope to make space. If they break, look out!
Filled the kid's sand box. Great success with Bubs- he played in it alone for over tweny minutes.
More path areas mulched. Using grass, rather than leaves. It is so windy here that leaves move around too much, blowing into the beds on top of sprouting seeds,onto the porch and so on.

Crops:
Planted nasturtiums, finally. May have planted other vines too early, may replant.
Annuals are up in S-S planter.
All crops are sprouting in kids' gardens. Will plant hot crops for them with mine.
Fed all T/Ps with fish tea. We will see.
Tomatoes: Container T tooking very poor. Bed T not much better. T-bag T looks GREAT! So far, at least. Will continue to observe.

To Do:
Plant hot crops
Finalize charts of plantings.
Re-plant MGs?
Make up watering schedule and print out.
Turn compost heap, and set up schedule for that.
Start lettuce t/p's

Harvested: romaine, lettuce.

No comments:

Post a Comment