AlexH

On August 13th, we got the garden planted at Tracy’s parents’ house.  It’s a bigger plot than I had at the house in Vancouver, so I’m looking forward to seeing what I can do with it.  It’s a mix of cooler weather crops like lettuce, spinach, and peas.  I also planted beans but that is mostly an experiment.  I don’t expect them to last into the winter since they don’t appreciate the cold weather, and I can’t put them under a coldframe.  They may not even produce anything that I can harvest, but I hope they will fix some nitrogen in the soil.
Once again I make the mistake of planting all of the onions at the same time, so I’m going to have a lot of green onions coming soon.

Many of the beets, arugula, and mustard are ready to harvest now as microgreens.  Interesting that it only takes about 3 weeks.  I did some thinning, but they just went in the compost pile rather than being eaten.

I should note that the carrots, spinach, and lettuce have not progressed as much.  Either old seeds, or incorrect conditions for them.  I thought that the weather conditions would be ideal right now, so I wonder if it is related to the soil.

One concern that I have is slugs.  Copper tape is so expensive, but I think I will be using that once the rain starts for the fall.

I’d estimate that 8 square feet in 4 weeks makes a salad.   4*7*8 = 224 sq ft to eat a salad every day, but it would require replanting the squares every day.  It would be nice though, radish greens, beet greens, arugula, and mustard.  Tough on the wallet though, planting 256 seeds every day.  When I have more space, I’m going to practice collecting seeds, but for now, I don’t have the space or the willpower to let things go to seed, when I could be harvesting them.  Especially for a biennial like beets.