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Victory Garden

April 18th, 2020 at 09:09 pm

The garden is starting to really come along with the clean up and getting dirt moved. I am ready to plant one bed now and have transplanted the strawberries. There is a lot of work ahead, but I am determined to have a big garden this year. With the food supply chain being disrupted, I want to have as stable a source of fresh vegetables and fruits as possible.

I have my first garden video up of for this season if anyone wants to see it. It's only six or seven minutes long. It has a new intro, new music, and a new outro. I'd be curious what you think of those things in particular. I always go with a country theme for my garden videos.

Text is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN7WPp7-iyw and Link is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN7WPp7-iyw

I will be planting snow peas this afternoon and possibly carrots, radishes, and parsnips, too. Carrots and parsnips are something that can be canned, so I'd like to do at least 2 plantings of those, one after the other. They are 60 day crops and do well in both cool and warm weather so I should be able to take a crop into the fall/winter season, since you can overwinter both in the ground, too and go out and pull as you need them.

I planted my Aerogarden 2 weeks ago with lettuce and it is doing amazing. It grew much faster than ever before. I guess it knows we need it to. Or maybe it just likes the environment of the closet where the temperature is always stable.

So anyway, we should have edible lettuce in four weeks and if I plant the radishes today, about the same on that. Can't wait to start eating homegrown salads again.

2 Responses to “Victory Garden”

  1. rob62521 Says:
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    I planted my lettuce more than 4 weeks ago, but we have had such cold temps, it's sort of stuck in place. It has peeked through the soil, but that's about it. I'm looking forward to our first small salad though.

    I agree -- I think we need to try and plant whatever we can. I think there is going to be a problem with getting food later this year even after the states open up.

  2. Lucky Robin Says:
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    Rob--We can't even plant lettuce outdoors until about now as our last frost date is generally the 15th, but can go as late as the 25th.

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