Cold March - One busy day

It is so cold outside! I am freezing.... but as old proverb says - one spring day can feed the whole year.
So I am going outside every day at least for one hour.

And look who was coming to watch me!

 I harvested some of my overwintered carrots,
If was my first try, not the right place and not the right time, but I am still happy.









I cleaned one of the strawberry bed , made it bigger and cover with plastic.

 This is second year plant (from last year runners). It looks happy for me.

 This bead still need to be cleaned.
My radishes in cold frame is green, but slowly. Next time I will insulate the cold frame.
I also - cleaned old mulch under the blueberries, added compost to them.
- made 2 more raised beds from bricks (it takes some cart rides to bring 25 bricks from the shed, than put leaves on the ground, than some carts of soil from woods and compost). I am not feeling cold anymore after card rides!

- planted summer garlic and green peas
- pruned roses very hard. last year I missed the time and they grown tall and not healthy.
- I also found this morning some of my seedlings dead in the basement! It looks some of the insects, like tiny transparent worms, 1-2mm long, just eaten my kohlrabi. May they be cutworms?
I was so upset! I used store seedling mix, but there also other plants with my outside soil, probably I mixed some... I feel so sorry, I sprinkled some DM-earth around each other seedling and pray.

Harvest Monday 3/11/2013

Not so much those days - it is still a lot of snow outside. I can harvest some greens slowly growing under covers - kale, chard, parsley, komatzuna, bock choi.
There is also my  cilantro and dill from windowsill.

To check out what is happening in the gardens of others, head on over here.

Another snow!

Another snow!
I hope it is a last one!
A very last one!

Deers, currant and other sings of springs

I am gardening everyday, I can not wait till real sping comes!


 And when I am not gardening, I am working in my office and observing wild life around :)
One brave deer!
2, no, 3 brave deers came looking for some greens.

What a beauty!
I love them! The only time I hate them, when my hostas are big and yummy.

 I cleaned the red currant place today. Last year I got 3 2-years cuttings. so it will be 3rd year plants now. They look like dry twigs, but when I cleaned some mulch I saw - yes, green buds!

 One more happy bed, I added it yesterday.
I am expanding!

 Strawberries are alive, need cleaning.

 I also made 2 new small beds on the outer north side and now I am thinking what to plant there? some shade lovers?

And deer-prof, may be rosemary?

Hoop house and new cold frame

In 2 days the night temperature will be above freezing point. I can not wait! Two hoop houses I have are pretty warm inside +13C+2C.


This is my new hoophouse I added yesterday.
Kale, rutabaga and kohlrabi are good inside.

 Kohlrabi early wienna.

 Kale blue dwarf and rutabaga purple top.

 Mustard and bok choi under frots cover.

 Young greens

 Old hoop house with redbor kale

 and komatzuna mustard.

I made a new bed before the snowstorm, using bricks, fall leaves and black plastic.
Today I added a layer of new soil, transplanted  radishes and sow some new greens -
lettuce black seeded,
lollo rossa,
mizuna,
curled parsley
endive.

March garden update

March garden looks very scary!

 We still have a lot of snow after the storm Nemo.
Today I cleaned some of the beds.

 Tatsoy rosette looks good, only some of the outer leaves are damaged.

 Swiss Chard bed, char and tatsoy are Ok, mitzuna and lettuce were dead.

 Kale bed was under the heavy snow, all of the plant were on the ground, I tied them to bamboo poles. I hope I can harvest them again.

There are kale blue curved and nero toscana.

 The bed under the hoop house is good, swiss chard, rosemary, broccoli and red cabbage.
I transplanted komatsuna and parsley to this bed.

 Greens under the glass are good, small but good. There should be radishes, turnips, spinach, cilantro.






Back inside the house: dill

 Swiss chard and green shallots.

 Green peas, celery from seeds, parsley and basil.

Cucumbers are blooming like crazy!
Can you see one?

 I have 8 of them inside, just to try. At least I am eating male flowers.

 Mustard and rutabaga.

 Basement seedlings - tomatoes and napa cabbage

 Peppers

 More peppers.

 Celery

 First tomatoes - tiny tim.

Cold top room -  Spinach

 Cilantro

 Swiss chard, cauliflower and asian greens

 Kale, rutabaga and asian greens.

 Rutabaga close up.

 Kale drawf blue curled.

 Mostly Mituna

 Kale starbor and redbor.

 More greens - mustard, asian greens.

 Bock choy

Swiss chard.