If we do not get beets from our CSA box, we will (hopefully) get beets from our new “cool season” garden. Almost all the vegetables are up and running, or climbing if we’re talking about the snap peas. And we still have the fava bean seeds and fennel seeds under ground working hard to sprout stems and roots.
The cool season growers are: (in no particular order, though I do favor the fennel :)
Fennel
Fava beans
Sugar snap peas
Beets
Broccoli
Oregano
Aloe vera-planted to add all-year greenness to the garden
It was a difficult decision selecting the right vegetables for the winter garden. There was many a quarrel between Tyler and me at the garden center regarding our choices.
“Let’s get some broccoli and beets. Mmmm beets.” Says Tyler
“But we don’t have enough room to plant 6 broccoli. Besides I already made a list of the plants I want.” Snarks Marci
“Broccoli would be so cool to see grow though. We can plant them all in the same big pot.” Pleads Tyler
“We don’t have a big enough pot for them…well, just buy them and you can take care of the broccoli then.” Acquiesces Marci
So I thought, okay, now it is Tyler’s responsibility to care for the broccoli and if he over crowds them in a small pot, then I tried to warn him. Low and behold, 2 days later as we were getting out of the car in the parking garage I spotted a huge ceramic pot sitting next to the recycle bin. Hoorah! Problem solved for the broccoli and I was secretly happy Tyler bought all the broccoli. Yay for dumpster diving.
The sugar snap peas are my favorite to watch grow so far. They wind their green tentacles up the twine and hook on to each other for support. They have already grown a couple inches in only a week and a half! Tyler came up with the idea of bending a wire hanger into a diamond shape and tying 4 pieces a twine to it, one on each corner. The twine hangs down to the peas and loosely tie each piece of twine to the 4 plants. Then the peas can have ample space to climb onwards and upwards without cramping any other plants style.
This is the first time I have ever grown any of this plants. Will they get enough sun? Will I over water them? Will the plump green worms return and devour the leaves?
We’ll see, and that’s the fun of it!
Marci
Word of advice: Don't write your blog post in Word and copy and paste it. It doesn't transfer over to blogspot and it takes up lots of time to fix. :(
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