It’s
nice to see the sunshine these days. I
decided last week to clear the little greenhouse of all the tired kale, chard
and celery so we have a clean slate to start with. The temps were so warm last Sunday I spent most
of the day in the little greenhouse, how could I resist. I sowed rows of green onion seeds, French
breakfast radish, bok choy, tatsoi, new chard and a slew of peas. All the spinach we planted late Fall in the
larger Greenhouse is doing great with its first little leaves popping up seed
still attached to each one – very promising.
We’ll see what happens and if the neighbours’ cats can keep on top of
the mice. Mice love spinach leaves and
will clean up if they can. They are so
bold they’ll eat while I’m standing right there – grrrrrr. I also scattered new spinach seeds in a fresh
open space in the little greenhouse. I
just checked and the little kales I transplanted Sunday are doing great
too. My thought is we can eat all of
these foods and have the raised beds cleared out before the hot peppers get
plunked in.
Speaking
of peppers, if you follow me on facebook or read my blog – daybrighteners.ca - you’ll
know that MY SEEDS CAME IN FRIDAY! Good
times ahead around here. Some flowers
and herbs have already been started. Carol
and I put up more shelves inside to make room for the trays upon
trays of peppers we started.
The tomatoes will be sown out in cells in the Greenhouse several weeks
from now so they’ll be used to the fluctuating temps by the time they actually
go directly outside into your gardens or ours.
In the
meantime, there’s lots going on inside.
I need a fisheye lens to get the true picture of my little
grow-room. Oh, look there’s an empty
shelf – I must take care of that.
I
ordered new sunflower seeds from another company today so we’ll have sunnys for
you in a couple of weeks.
I’m
switching back and forth today between creating this post and working
on my Garden Planner, which is very time-consuming but really, really fun. Planning what to have ready for the
Sustainability Fair is also on my To Do List.
Everything is falling into place just as it should and always does this
time of year.
Until next post, have a great every day. Oh and Happiest of New Years to you.
Jo
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