Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Slow garden

It's been almost a month since I planted onions, broccoli, spinach and cilantro. The weather has been kind of cold and it's taking a while for things to take off. The cilantro and the broccoli were old seeds that I got from someone else. The cilantro is doing good but there are only 4 broccoli plants. I need to either buy new seeds or put in something else that I already have seeds for. I bought the spinach seeds last year and it seems to be doing fine. The seeds I got from one of my onions last year started kind of slow and had a low germination rate. I'm probably going to plant more of them though. They were purple onions and I liked them the best. Last week one of my housemate's father brought me a couple of heirloom tomato plants, Georgia Streak and Black Seaman. I planted them last Friday even though I was worried about the forecast of cold nights ahead. I did put cloches on them and will leave them there for at least a couple of weeks. I still want to do one sauce tomato and would like to try San Marzano this time. I might check nearby nurseries this weekend. It has been warmer than expected, and night time temperatures are getting close to being at least 50F, but I'm not going to get ahead of myself. And I'm planting twice as much basil as I did last year. More pesto! I wish pine nuts weren't so expensive. I kind of want to try walnuts instead. Apparently they are a passable substitute and are a lot cheaper. I need to get more fish fertilizer. I'm nearly out.

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