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Garden Noob's April Recap

Let's do a quick recap of April.  In addition to sharing our experience trying to garden, this is also a diary to help us remember next year what worked and what didn't.

1. Herbs - Herbs are running out of room!  We started them in late February and that was just way too early.  If we moved them to a bigger pot we would be fine, but I really just want them to make it another two weeks and they can be moved into their permanent home, the pyramid.  Our parsley is starting to look a little sketchy. Might have to start over on that one.

2. Don't start carrots inside - I think we covered that already, but we continue to see them flounder in the pots we moved them into.  So next year, let's not do that.  We planted carrots and parsnips directly in the ground on April 28th.


3.  Again, do not get over eager.  Potatoes should not have been planted this month.  We just had too many cold snaps and they just didn't make it.  We will start new seed potatoes in another week, assuming no hard freezes are in the forecast.


4.  Until two days ago, onions were going strong, but we had snow this week (Wednesday), and while hubby and I tried to cover them with a sheet/bucket contraption, the snow became too heavy and the sheet collapsed.  Hubby said some stems were snapped.  I have not investigated myself, so I'm unsure what our onion massacre looks like.

Here is our "before snow" onions, let's hope they still look similar to this:




Also before this snow "storm," our leafy green seedings had survive the previous snow and were busting out.  We were able to more carefully cover them since they are under the cucumber trellis, but again, did these babies survive?   I don't know yet.

Here's the peas:


And spinach (sorry, picture isn't great):





And lettuce:



I'm looking forward for some of this weather to end so we can move forward with more exciting planting.  Cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, oh my.  And have everyone survive.  That would be nice.

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