Getting Down to Our Roots

It's spring in Colorado, which basically means wild temperature fluctuations and what others might consider odd weather. It was 60 degrees last Thursday. The day I'm writing this, a whopping two days later, we have 8-10 inches of snow. It's been blowing snow and ridiculously cold. Our high tomorrow, March 24th, is 28 degrees.

Amidst all this weather, Tagawa Gardens was hosting a root vegetables class during the heinous weather. It was a fight, but I got my husband to un-hide the car keys and come to class with me.

We learned a lot in our little class. Like that carrots and parsnips do not like to be transplanted and should be started directly outside. Oops. That we should already have our asparagus in the ground. Oops. Potatoes should also be started already. Oops. And onions are best planted in fall. Oops.

Given all those oopses, we loaded up on Saturday. We grabbed a potato kit (details later), some more carrot and parsnip seeds (they will probably need a re-do, oh well), asparagus crowns (more details later), onion sets (later!), and some super fertilizer the teacher told us about.

Just to prove I'm not lying about the weather, here you go.

In case you are curious, here's the financial breakdown:

Potato Kit (2 bags of root soil, seed potatoes, and some fertilizer) = $29.99
Fancy "Soil Activator" Fertilizer = $16.99
More seed starter soil = $12.99
Age Old Kelp Fertilizer for our seedlings (big size) = $14.99
Asparagus Crowns = $8.99
Shallots Sets = $2.99
Onion Sets = $2.99
Carrot Seeds = $1.59
Parsnip Seeds = $2.49

Total w/tax, after discounts = $88.61

I did however save 20% using my Tagawa Card and they let me use the $5.00 off coupon I forgot at home all since I ventured out in the horrible weather.

Not gonna lie, the trip stung the wallet a bit. But it will be totally worth it if I'm up to my eyeballs in onions and potatoes come fall.

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