It's a busy time for us and will get busier in a few weeks when the chickens arrive along with the new puppy. Are we crazy?
Stay safe everyone and thanks for stopping by.
Friday, 12 June 2020
LIFE IS QUIET AGAIN
Owen and Kate went home yesterday and the house is like a tomb, quiet beyond belief.
Our house may be still but our gardens have been active. Our cucumber beds are doing quite well in their mini-greenhouse. New leaves have sprouted and the plants look healthy.
We need to find a better way of planting carrot seeds. The seeds are tiny and we obviously drop too many too close together. Now we need to go back and thin them out for the second time.
One variety of lettuce was quite bitter so we pulled it today and Mary planted radishes.
The other bed got a new planting of dutch-sets which was my Dad's favourite vegetable. He always had 3-4 across his supper plate.
Our strategy this summer is to replant a new crop as soon as we pull the old. That way, we should get 2-3 harvests from each bed before winter closes everything down. Today Mary was able to freeze five bags of spinach for future smoothies this fall.
It's a busy time for us and will get busier in a few weeks when the chickens arrive along with the new puppy. Are we crazy?
Stay safe everyone and thanks for stopping by.
It's a busy time for us and will get busier in a few weeks when the chickens arrive along with the new puppy. Are we crazy?
Stay safe everyone and thanks for stopping by.
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What are Dutch sets? Your garden looks fantastic
ReplyDeleteHi Linda;
DeleteThanks for the kind words. "Dutch sets" are a type of green onion we plant here in Canada.
"Dutch Onion Sets – Yellow. Onion Allium cepa 'Stuttgarten Riesen' These onions are resistant to bolting and are very long keeping. Sets produce onions that will store all winter. Dutch onions are much easier to grow than growing onions from seed."
Hope this helps.