Late winter planting

Totally garden weekend at the homestead. Well, garden and Alice in Wonderland.

Yesterday, we got about two-thirds of the way through first spring weeding. As late harvest, we pulled out the last of the red beets (about seven or eight), and some parsnips (a handful). No larger than half a fist for any of them, but maybe we'll eat 'em tonight.

The north corner was planted sometime in fall (Kat says) with mucho celery, a line of broccoli and cauliflower, some peas, bunching onions, and celeriac.

The peas were not successful, and the rest of the group is extremely slow going. We really should have noted when those went in, 'cause I could have sworn it was late fall or even early winter. So be it. I suspect we may have planted all those off season. That might be the problem there. We got 'em all from Annie's Annuals down the road.

Anyhow, the only other things that are in the ground (and growing) now are a family of garlic planted by Isabel sometime last year, also very slow growing, a walking stick kale, and a row or two of Swiss chard. And the wormwood, just because.

And two of the other three beds (south and east) are now turned. And we just planted: a row of golden beets (50 days to harvest) in the furthest row back in the east bed, a row of daikon (60 days to harvest), a couple rows of rainbow hybrid carrots (75 days to harvest), and leftover dragon carrots (90 days to harvest) which didn't take when we planted them about six months ago.

We'll see what comes of it!