Due to weather conditions I have been planting much of my garden later than I would like to. As they say April showers bring May flowers. This happens to be true most years, but this season it has been abnormally rainy and windy for the most part. I normally wouldn’t mind, but unfortunately it is preventing me from planting potatoes and other plants into the garden.
Luckily today was actually quite nice, but definitely windy. I can deal with the wind and since the sun was out for a short time I decided that it was time to get my seed potatoes into the ground. I had cut them a couple of days ago and let them sit in the windowsill in order to cure them before placing them in rows outside.
Rather than digging holes which would have taken much longer to complete I decided that it would be best to start with a thirty foot row. I had to dig a little bit deeper because they require at least three inches of soil to cover these seeds. Once I did that I planted them into each row and took up about twenty feet of row instead of the usual thirty or more.
This means that there was extra room that I need to fill. Since I had no more potatoes to plant I thought it would be best to put some cool weather seeds there. I wasn’t sure what to put in this spot, but I eventually decided on cabbage, broccoli, brussel sprouts, celery, and lettuce. I could have placed some flowers there, but there was enough space for some seeds to be planted.
All my recently planted seeds have started to pop up. I didn’t think they would be sprouting by now, but believe or not they are showing themselves through the soil. I would guess that it was all the rain we have been receiving for the past couple of weeks with more to come
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