Started planting herbs/marigolds in December and they're really doing well! Have since planted various heirloom tomatoes and peppers, more basil, more herbs, and a tray of flowers.
3/11 - Friday afternoon - on my way home breezed past Fort Collins Nursery and picked up onion sets and seed potatoes.
3/12 - Saturday - drove past the community garden plot on the way to school to plant seeds. Installed 3rd grow light on the grow tray, planted a flat of 72 with flowers: pansies, geranium, bachelor's buttons, snapdragons. Counted plants coming up in other flats.
3/13 - Sunday - Dragged L to Fort Collins Nursery to get early season seeds and some more winter squash seeds for variety. Afterward, headed to Spring Creek Community Garden plot (A2). I have been making plans using growveg.com but it's always best to stand in front of it and do the physical layout before planting anything. Took a rake over the surface to clean off last year's weeds, not a perfect job but it'll do. Planted spinach, lettuce, borage seeds and a few onion sets in the "strawberry patch". Tore up a section and planted turnip, carrot, beet, onion mix with some parsley and lettuce tossed in on the edges. Should be an interesting look when they start to pop up. Also laid out stones and took a veg ladder to eyeball the winter squash areas. Have a couple more stones to lay out and a couple of small areas to plant (another ~3 x 2 area of parsnips, turnips, lettuce, onions), 1' square sections of green onions, lettuce (in between walking bricks), that can all be done this week. Have largely neglected my beds here at home for the time being since they'll mostly be summer vegetables and potatoes (April planting).
Pictures to accompany shortly.
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