Gregory's ServerToday we are planting starts for lettuce, kale, and peas. We are also starting a tea garden for the first time: lemon verbena, echinacea, and calendula. I'm so so excited!
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 @darius our cats will eat anything that's too tasty; tomatoes and basil never survive but I recently discovered they don't like cardamom so I'm excited about that @axfelix omg if our cats were allowed outdoors where our garden is I would be completely unable to garden  @darius Lovely! Speaking of tea gardens, at my old home, I actually did keep some camellia sinensis. They weren't going to make premium tea leaves, but they were beautiful and easy to care for, and I did drink a cup or two from them from time to time.  @whoisgina no they didn't have any but we planted some butterhead lettuce which seems similar! Gave up on tomatoes and cucumbers after pretty much failing last year. My peas and lettuce did so well I figured I might as well focus on those and buy other stuff at my farmers market from the pros. My onions were tiny last year and the year before but I think it's because I planted them in spring! The onions here are ones that I accidentally overwintered so I'm curious to see how they fare this season.  @darius peas/legumes have turned out to be the unexpected easy wins of our garden @darius we threw some lentils in the ground towards the end of last year and neglected them and they started growing and doing great and then they got covered in snow for weeks the snow melted and they were like sup, we're still ready to go @darius also I've heard it rumored that chickpeas are finnickier, but if you get them to grow they are great eaten steamed and salted like edamame when green and in the pod???  @darius We’ve had mediocre luck with “real” tomatoes (but I keep trying), but done very well with cherry/grape tomatoes atriums here. Sweet in their own, abundant, and good preserving options. @a my cherry tomatoes definitely did better than the big ones! ultimately I decided I'd rather use the trellis space for my peas, which were absolutely superb. also I will just not get over my obsession with growing big beautiful heirlooms and I just get so sad when I fail :(  |
@darius that's going to be awesome!