A Gardener's Retreat

We’re planting early this year.  Anything that doesn’t make it, we can replant.  Today was warm with relatively light breezes so we headed out to the garden to plant some seeds.  

Chris had come into some chicken wire so he made us a fence for our peas.  We planted Sugar Ann and Sugar Daddy snap peas and another variety of regular peas.  Actually, the Sugar Ann went in Saturday.  So, based on the seed packet’s instructions, we should have pea seedlings by the 28th of this month.  I’m paying attention because some of the seeds we planted are a year old or more so if they don’t come up I want to replant fast.

I also planted interspersed rows of carrots and radishes, more than ever before but we’ve always had good luck with them and there never seem to be enough.  I still have two rows of carrots to plant but so far we have Easter Egg and Petit Dejeuner radishes and Royal Chantenay and Scarlet Nantes carrots in the ground.

The other exciting planting was sorrel which I’ve never grown before.   I planted a small bed of it just to see what would happen.  Hopefully, I’ll get enough for the French classic Sorrel Soup, which I’ve wanted to make for years.

After all our seeds were planted, we trudged down to the stream down the hill and filled some buckets to water.  It’s dry for the first inch or so but nice and moist below.  Hopefully we can keep everything watered until Sunday when (cross your fingers) we get rain.  I’m looking forward to that straw shipment too, so we can start to mulch.

Next on the planting list is lettuce which we’re going to schedule around the weather forecast.  I’d like it to be a bit wetter before we try to get that going.  In the meantime, with luck we should have radish seedlings within the week!  That’s always exciting.