Huge day today for the garden...

[MiHale]

After battling frosty nights for a few days the nightly temperatures look to stabilize in the 50’s this week. The peppers are coming out into the greenhouse joining the tomatoes, cabbage, carrots and parsnips. A “special” guest plant may make it out also, I have an Acapulco Gold cannabis baby that wants to see the outside world. More on that later, but now…

We’re experimenting with straw bale gardening this year. I’ve wanted to try to “trellis” zucchini and other squashes to get them above the ground. The bales are approximately 2 feet high…large “mound”. The bales were ready for use in late April, conditioned, fertilized, starting to internally warm. During an uncharacteristic warm trend we received I planted some acorn squash seeds and assorted lettuce seeds. They were first up, later in the other bales I added Butternut and Zucchini. Since this is an experiment I also planted for high density. Looks like … so far … it’s working. We also planted “traditional” squash mounds so if things don’t work we’re covered.





Outside gardens are looking great even after all the cold weather. Roma tomatoes are getting little green globes. Cucumbers are starting to flower. Potatoes are … well… potatoes.
Radishes are “crowning”. That stretch of warm weather gave us an opportunity to plant cold hardy crops early. Little work to keep them happy throughout the cold but it all looks good.