It's May, which means New York has no idea what season it is. This seems to have been a trend this year, we had eternal winter (I feared Ragnarok was upon us) and then skipped right to summer. Spring? Bah who needs spring?! This does mean that my seedlings got kind of a weird start this year.
I experimented with using a lamp and a lizard light (vitamin A bulb from the reptile section of the petstore) and while it gave proof of concept the light was too far away from the seeds and they ended up leggy and dead. So I had to restart about 2 weeks ago out doors. Yeah, yeah I'm late I get it. But I couldn't get into Fwigf until it was tilled which wasn't until after the spring brunch on May 3 so I'm really not that far behind. Last year I didn't start until June. So I think all will be well.
I've had to scrap the large garden at home, as well as the decent sized one in the front yard. This is just due to time and my physical limitations. Gardening is my thing, it's not fair to ask Husband to do all the back breaking labor of tilling up our yard for me to plant stuff.
BUT! He is out front right now building me a mini-raised bed to grow greens in. This gives me the happiest of wiggles. My greens bed is:
3 ft x 3ft x 6inches tall. Or 1m x 1m x ~12cm for our metric friends. I'm filling it with 2 cu ft of top soil, 1 cu ft of composted cow manure, 1 cu ft of peat hummus and one 5 gallon bucket of composted horse manure (thank you local horse farm for letting me dig in your shit pile!).
In that I intend to plant 1 brussels sprout seedling right in the middle and scatter Amish Deer Tongue lettuce around it and hope it takes. The goal is to have a small, rich, plot that I can just succession plant greens in to have a constant supply for salads and Husband's sandwiches. We'll see how this goes! I may plant some spinach or hardier greens in there next to be able to actually blanch and freeze them. No repeat of the lettuce sourkrout experiment of last year.
Well, time to go fill my mini-bed with dirt and plant it up!
