Little Signs Of Progress...

 A rather dreary day here...but not too bad compared to a month ago. My "early" bed is showing signs of progress. In this I have planted Tom Thumb lettuce, French Breakfast radishes, Heat Wave lettuce, German Giant radishes, Pak Choi, Spinach and the first of my peas.

All are showing and I'm in the process of thinning as they become mature enough.

Its always so pleasant when the first plantings show and you feel that progress is being made.

The really big news of the day is that each of the four pots with new potatoes are showing signs of life. Yes, that little bud there will grow, be covered, grow some more, be covered again, but in the end it will mean a pot full of WONDERFUL new potatoes for Richard. They are such a treat and if they can be grown in these containers successfully that will be a big plus for the garden's production.

It is incredible what sort of production can be had out of just a few seed potatoes. One of those great benefits of gardening.

The supports are up for the climbing green beans. We are only planting Fortex this year, it is just a superior green to Kentucky Wonder. Better flavor, better freezer and truly stringless.

I have a tray of Fortex in peat pots as they can be touchy regarding germination but I have no worry regarding having to plant some directly into the bed as that's what I've done for all years we have been here.

This bed has been deeply dug and heavily augmented with compost/steer manure. These "legacy" raised beds' soil was very tired and they definitely need some serious attention.

It feels good knowing that as each bed is planted that the seeds will be growing with all they need.



Today I also started in pots two plantings of Black Beauty courgettes (zuchinni) and some more spring cabbage.

Every day a little progress :)