We got our seed potatoes in the mail!!! Last year we purchased our seed potatoes from one of those big home supply stores. They did really well at first and then just died 🙁 Hopefully this years will survive! Now they just need to sprout their eyes…
We plan on planting them in an old kiddie pool we purchased for the dogs. Figure it’s worth trying…Yet another experiment.
Peanut update: Here they are!!! Tall, healthy, crazy looking, They will have to be up-potted very very soon!
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| Aerial view of the peanuts 🙂 |
I worked a lot in the front yard today on some of the ground level beds. There’s still lots to do but I decided I wanted to start putting some seeds down. Along the fence with the rug hanging off of it (Tool Lady cleaned up upstairs patio, including this rug, which is hanging out to dry) will be super tall (12 feet + hopefully) sunflowers. In front of them I’ll probably plant squash and zucchini. Where the straw is begins our little strawberry section.
To the right hand side of the strawberries are sugar snap peas along the fence (I will need to create something for them to climb up onto later as the fence will not be sufficient) with two types of echinacea planted in front (Purple Coneflower and White Swan). There is also some wild grass planted in this bed. It’s supposed to get 6-8 feet tall but didn’t do anything last year except die, so we’ll see if anything happens this year.
On the right hand side of the echinacea are rows of arugula and lettuce which are mostly in the shade.
That’s it! Now it’s time for my book and a beer. Cheers!
Edit – After all the busy-ness of yesterday, I neglected to mention that our potatoes are German Butterball this year at the request of Tool Lady 🙂
