This past week in the garden!

Our weather here in Cincy has been outrageous....it reached 84 degrees yesterday!  We've been enjoying it every way possible, biking, reading on the porch, dog-walking, bonfires, eating every meal outdoors, and of course, gardening!

I've been over to the plot every day this week.  Waiting, and hoping, and wishing, and praying that something...just one little something would sprout.  And guess what?!?  Today, I was blessed with that something.  Actually 13 somethings!  I counted 11 new sugar snap pea babies, 1 potato bud poking through, and 1 carrot sprouting forth.  It made my day.  Here are pics of the sugar snap peas:

Here is the potato!








Other than watching the garden in it's first stages of growth, we have been busy tending to the weeds, marking out new beds, adding compost, keeping things moist, and most importantly in April, planting.  Chris and I managed to beat the rain and get in the beet seeds and my pathetic looking onion transplants today.  You see, in my efforts to harden off the onions, I managed to kill about half of them.  Thus, only 6 little onions were tucked in to the soil.  However, I have quite a few (about 40) growing on the side of the house.  I had planted those in the fall in a cold frame and there they grew (slowly) all winter long.  I think we're set with onions no matter what happens with the 6 in the plot.

Next to the onions, I direct seeded some Tall Top Early Wonder Beets.  Chris says the seeds look like chocolate clusters dipped in carmel...which beets don't taste anything like, but to me, are just as delicious!  Beets and onions are good companion plants so I'm hoping the beets can help the onions along.

By next week, we hope to have all of the giant monster weeds out of the garden and get the brassicas (cabbage, broccoli, califlowers, turnips, radishes, etc.) planted.  Although I'm dissappointed with my onions, and it might help the potatoes if we had some cooler and wetter weather...we are right where we need to be!