Garden Update

Well, the big Burpee shipment should arrive today. Feels like Christmas, I'm so excited. The ground, in the meanwhile, has insisted on growing more grass. I'll be glad when it's time to start tilling the soil and getting down to business.

But first things first. Got to get all those seeds into their little compartments and hope we can keep them alive long enough to plant!

Think good thoughts for the little seedlings:-)

Speaking of Seeds

Biodiversity 'doomsday' vault comes to life in Arctic

This is cool and creepy all at the same time. There are people saavy enough to plan for our eventual self (or natural) destruction by putting up all the seeds ever known to man, just in case we lose them. Cool. Literally.

Farming Schedule

The following is the aforementioned "farming" schedule. I had to push back the seed starting date by one week because Burpee is a little later than I'd guessed getting my seeds to me.
But from all I've studied, this plan should get us off and running, at least for the first part of the season. I know that I will need to make plans to replace crops, etc. as the season progresses, but right now I can't think that far.
March 1 - 3
6 Cauliflower
20 Celery
6 Eggplant
10 each Hot/Sweet Peppers
6 each Tomatoes
30 Onions
5 Basil
March 8 - 10
5 each Lettuces
20 Beets
100 Carrots
10 Cantaloupes
10 Pumpkins
10 Winter Squash
20 Zucchini
10 Watermelon
March 15 - 17
10 Cucumbers
March 21 - 24
Wedding
29-Mar
Pajarito Rototill:
compost, sand, bonemeal
March 30 - 31
40 Corn
50 Peas
20 Pole Beans
20 Bush Beans
30 Sunflowers
2-Apr
Topsoil Delivered
April 3 - 4
Work in topsoil w/manure, bonemeal
April 5 - 7
PLANT
Asparagus, Radishes, Corn
Sunflowers, Lettuce, Beets, Carrots
Melon, Pumpkin, Winter Squash
Zucchini, Watermelon, Basil
April 12 - 14
PLANT
Peas, Pole Beans, Bush Beans
Cucumbers
May 3 - 5
PLANT
Cauliflower, Eggplant, Hot/Sweet
Peppers, Tomatoes, Onions
May 25 - 26
PLANT
Celery

Garden Part 2

Over the weekend, we brought up all (well most) of the home grown compost and put it in the front yard. We also went and bought more Super Compost and more sand. Probably the most exciting thing is that I established a time-line for all the rest of what we have to do, including get married, between now and when we finally put the celery in in May. I have yet to load it into excel, but when I do, I'll post it here.
I'm learning lots from these books, I can't wait to get out there and learn from the dirt.

The start of The Garden

This is what our front yard now looks like. Hopefully months from now, it will be a big, beautiful vegetable garden. I'm studying and planning right now, and waiting for a large shipment of seeds to come from Burpee.
We wil be employing the BioIntensive Method of gardening which should insure that we do well and yield lots of yummy things.
So for now, this Blog will be devoted to what we're doing about this garden.

2.17.08
Today we went to Navlet's and bought 3 bags of sand and 3 bags of "Super" compost. Then we came back and dragged all the rest of our homemade compost up from the back, while bringing the no-longer-lawn to the back for decomposing. It was a lot like work.
To the best I can tell, we should start planting seeds next weekend and then have the yard fully rototilled right after the wedding. So the target date for plants in the ground is April 1st.