Planted my potatoes yesterday. We've got some unseasonably warm weather right now - yesterday it got up to 85! I only planted about 8 of the tubers that I had since I had a space about 5'x2' and the rows are supposed to be 4' apart! I gave them a good drink and then covered them up with a mulch made up of old leaves and grass clippings.
The lettuce is sprouting! (You can see some in one of the pictures above...) I've still got seeds and a little bit of room left in one of the planters. I'm having a hard time collecting enough plastic 2 ltr bottles to put over the top of them. But I figure staggering the plantings will be a good thing. Lettuce doesn't like hot sun, so I figure I'll get another few "heads" before the July heat starts.
Started planting onions today. Used a large terra cotta planter on the deck - but once again ran out of bottles before I got the entire thing planted. So I guess I'll stagger those too.
Jim had chopped down some branches to give the backyard some more sun this summer and I had all of these twigs laying around. So I made my own little garden fence around the potatoes. Turned out pretty cool!
