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| A brave pepper begins its journey of growth! |
Cool springs are a ying and a yang for
us vegetable gardeners. The ying is that the cooler temperatures
generally also mean a wet spring which has been the case so far this
year. The yang has been later plantings as a result of the soil being
both too wet and too cold early in the season. But, now that it has
finally begun to warm up a bit, I've learned to plant on the days
when it's not actively raining.
So far, at least as of May 2013, I've
manage to get the following into the ground:
Onions planted as sets in March
Seed potatoes that were also planted in
March
Radish seed in April
A small group of Romaine lettuce starts
in mid April
Bell pepper and hot pepper starts that
look a bit stringy and lanky just this past day
Nantes carrot seed on May the 7th
Four cucumber starts on the same day
(good luck with these making it)
and a lone Brandywine start that was
transplanted into a large pot out front!
I still have a four pack of basil and a
few more bell pepper starts that need to go out and which I hope to
get done on May the 8th even though more rain is
threatening.
The National Weather Service down here
in southwest Missouri is just now beginning to hint at a dry and hot
week coming up! That would be good news just as long as we don't
slide back into a drought condition like what plagued the Midwest
last year!
With rising food prices now more or
less the rule, I'm hoping to bring in a fairly decent home crop this
year! Right now iceberg lettuce is going for $2 a head and a lone
bell pepper is close to a dollar!
