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Feb 11, 2008 | 3:12 PM PST
Tags: Walla Walla Sweet Onions , Parsley , butterleaf lettuce , greenleaf lettuce , rosemary , Smooth Leafed Olympic Spinach

Allright! Got some pictures finally so you can see why we had so much fun, haha! This was last year, start to *halfway* finished. Go Here.

So, anyways, my post last year about why we stopped halfway, Here.

Well, now we have claimed the full space. That blackberry got a bit too happy were it was, guess I should have taken a pic, it had grown halfway up the space!

SO, now we have THIS space!

See the happy happy Parsley? All that soil..begging for plants!

There was a surprise, you can kinda see it down there. There was so much overgrowth under that blackberry that I had no clue it was there....

A rosemary bush. A very tough one who just now sees the light of day....

That was a serious chore that I felt, for sure :D

Here is a nice shot of G's garlic, he had some flower bulbs coming up (I *thought* I had gotten all those tulips out!) so he learned the difference between the garlic and them fast! As I know garlic really does not like to be transplanted I showed him how to take it ALL up, get out his garlic and then replant the garlic by digging the hole REALLY deep and dangling the roots down while filling the dirt around them. Fast learner, he is.

So, we proceeded to plant the entire area. In his garlic area he planted Early Radishes and towards the end he planted Spinach, then some Walla Walla sweet onions.

On my side I put in a *tad* bit of spinach, some more onions, some butterleaf lettuce and greenleaf lettuce. It's time...time to grow!

Emergency Cow Poop.
Feb 10, 2008 | 4:24 PM PST
Tags: Brandywine , Cherry Tomato , compost , butterleaf lettuce , green leaf lettuce , Walla Walla Sweet Onions , Smooth Leafed Olympic Spinach , Radishes , Garlic , Black Prince , Cold Frame

So, I talked to G today about how we really couldn't do much until we treated the dirt at the end to make it soil. He totally got it but was a bit put out as we really wanted to put the Walla Walla sweet onions in today...so, I came inside and got Carry to take me to the local Home Depot and we got some 'emergency cow poop', came home and I dumped about a bag and a half between the two spaces.

At this very moment I am reading a book called 'Cubed Foot Gardening' by Christopher O. Bird. Well, I really like what he has to say. So, we are doing an intensive seasonal rotation garden. Going through it I decided to ignore the packets suggestions (I know! WHAT ARE YOU THINKING???) Either way, I looked through our last frost, possible first frost...and found that for some reason (Ring of fire? Could it be the volcanoes? Hmmm...maybe ;) ) that our growing season is actually LONGER then where I grew up in NC! Maybe a month or so longer! Wow.

So, we planted! We planted the Walla Walla's that we were going to anyways, but they also planted the smooth leafed Olympic spinach according to the 'cubed ft design. Spinach is kinda tall so it gets the north side of the garden all over! Then we put the onions in front of the spinach to fill the area on the north side. On the south side I planted all the lettuces and some onions. I put the butterleaf and greenleaf through my newly opened area and then in his 'garlic rectangle' G put early radishes. So, assuming things work the way I have been reading, both online and in the book, and from what I saw last year....we should have solid green in about a month! wOOt!

Next week? Cold Frames based out of the containers that our greens come in.
We shall plant the tomatoes, we have Brandywine and my cross breed black prince/brandywines from last year, and some cherry sweets for G cuz that boy can GO through some maters!!! our deal, on his side he can eat all of them he wants, on ours, ASK! LOL!

Honestly....pics...
soon. I took some but the batteries need to charge up a bit, had to chare them a tad to take pics. Damn we need a new camera, haha.