April 24, 2010 Well, here is another growing year. I had such a productive garden last year that we haven't even finished eating all the tomato sauce and vegetables that have been frozen. We are still eating out of the garden from the plantings last year. The purple sprouting broccoli is half gone and delicious. Even so, I have already planted several things: broccoli rabe and swiss chard (4/10) and two kinds of potatoes, Austrian fingerling and Kennebec. To keep the potatoes covered with dirt, i bought some wire mesh, cut it, wired it into two cylinders and planted them around the eyes. I hope I didn't plant them too close together. I will be disappointed if they are. I still want to plant some onions, but time is running out.
I still need to go downtown to pick up a load of coffee bags. I will place them in the walkways to prevent weeds from coming through the pasture. I need to buy some more compost, too, from Concentrates.
Next week-end I will be going to the Master Gardener Spring Garden Fair to pick up the tomatoes. I will look out for tomatillos and peppers, but they're going to be at the Oregon City Farmer's Market in a few weeks. Not to worry.
