March 14, 2013 - Today in (and out of) the Garden

I took the entire day off yesterday.  I was feeling muscles I didn't know I had after wrestling the heavy leaf sucker/bagger around for half the day on Tuesday.  I recuperated enough to get a bit done today.

Inside I planted 36 cells of dwarf marigolds, 4 containers of sweet basil (2 seeds each), 4 containers of Sungold tomatoes (2 seeds in each), 2 containers of Una Hartsock tomatoes (2 seeds each), 2 containers of Black Cherry tomatoes (2 seeds each).  That takes care of all the cherry tomatoes I'll be planting.  I hope to get 2 nice Sungolds and one each of the others, any remaining will go to Son John.

Outside I dug up and amended potato bed #1 (3' x 12') and planted 45 Red Norland potatoes.  Fifteen of them were some I had saved from last year's garden.  They were perfect egg-sized, and already showing green sprouts.  The other 30 were the 2 1/2 pounds of seed potatoes I had purchased.  I think I'm going to have a glut of potatoes this year, as I still have a bag of self-saved Yukon Golds, as well as the 2 1/2 pounds I had purchased.   That's one of the problems with getting old.  If I had remembered I had two bags of saved potatoes, I wouldn't have bought so many!  Once the Norlands were planted, I transplanted 8 Red Sails lettuces that were outgrowing their cells.

I used the moisture meter to check the onions, and they were dry, dry, dry.  I packed out 4 gallons of water and gave them a good drink.

That was enough for one day.

**I just signed the petition "Kraft: Stop Using Dangerous Food Dyes in Our Mac & Cheese" on Change.org.  I don't eat the cr*p, but many, many children do.

It's important. Will you sign it too? Here's the link:

http://www.change.org/petitions/kraft-stop-using-dangerous-food-dyes-in-our-mac-cheese

Thanks...

Granny