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Tuesday, April 19, 2016

In the garden this week


  • Fertilized: everything not in pots. 1/4 lb of slow release 10-10-10 per 3 x 8 bed, handfuls around trees and vines depending on size
  • Maintenance: weed, drip
  • Harvest: eggplant, beans, loquats, strawberries, broccoli, carrots, New Zealand spinach, tomatoes, sissoo spinach, parsley, purslane, Ceylon spinach, longevity spinach, Okinawa spinach
  • Started microgreens and shoots: peas, kale, broccoli, lettuce
  • Removed beet greens that were very sad looking but we ate them anyway, transplanted purselane into the plot*
  • Removed leftover cauliflower remnants and transplanted amaranth in the plot*
  • Started 50 sissoo spinach cuttings
  • Started papaya, moringa, tropical lettuce, and Jewels of Opar seeds (new plant!)
*Soil amended with rabbit manure
All are rotated crops.