So far this year I have gotten rhubarb, comfrey, horseradish (not sure if the pieces took, so might plant the other couple I have in another area) honeyberries, hibh bush cranberry, loganberry, currants, gooseberries, jostaberries, fruit trees (apples, pears, plum, apricot, peach, nectarine, paw paw, mulberry), elderberry, english walnut and almond planted. I still have some other perennials to get in (ground nuts, jerusalem artichoke, fig, more currants (that are currently rooting) and many seeds of many perennials (too many to list right now) that I need to get started). I have also been waiting to see what perennials exactly survived being overwintered in pots and the live ones will be planted out as well. I got a couple of iris' free yesterday at an earthday event, so those were quickly popped into the ground too.
I have stuck in some garlic, onions and potatoes that sprouted here and there. We will see what becomes of them. I have some wild onion bulbs I might scatter around and see if they do anything.
It is still too early for me to get annuals in the ground. I was working today on repotting some of my tomato plants into larger containers. I am now wondering what the heck was I thinking. I have a habit of not being able to get rid of seed, so I grow it and trade for things. Right now I have 22 varieties of tomatoes started. Like I said, what the heck was I thinking! I sent my mother an email with all of the varieties and a description and asked her to give me her wishlist. I will then talk with some people at work to see if I have any takers there. This was just the tomatoes! I was looking at the peppers, eggplant and basil and thinking that I need to do the same with them. Not
enough hours in the day...
Since I caged off the trees that I planted this year, I thought about sprinkling a mix of radish, turnip, beet and carrot seed in each caged area to hopefully protect it from the birds a bit. I have quite a number of varieties of each, so I thought that I could put a different mixture of each with each tree and that would be one way I could keep track of what I planted where. I also need to get cracking on getting peas in, too. I thought about planting so that they could grow up the north side of the tree cages, for the
trellis and as nitrogen fixing elements.
While it is still cooler, I though about doing a test bed on the east side of my house for lettuces to see (1) how they do there because they will get limited moring light and (2) if they do survive, how they will do as things heat up a bit since the area is shaded for a large portion of the day. The sunlight would come in the cooler part of the day.
Then when the weather warms, it will be time for the in ground annual seeds. I don't even want to start to think about that yet. I have 3 weeks or so before that adventure begins!. At some point, I thought about taking some broken up
concrete from behind the neighbors garage and putting in some "stepping stone" paths in high traffic areas. I also have been thinking that I might be able to use some possibly in a herb spiral. I must say, though, that my back already aches at the thought of lugging all of it around and the excavation too.
I have a small amount of wildflower seeds that I am trying to decide where I want to sprinkle them.
Spring
should be a busy, busy time!
did you mean just annuals?
