I’ve been meaning to do a garden update for a long time, but I never seemed to have pictures of everything handy when I could sit down and do it. So let’s see if I can remember everything that’s changed since the last time. Comments after the pictures.
Harvested the third small batch of radishes today. With all the moisture they’re getting, they seem noticeably bigger every day, so I’m not just picking little ones to thin them anymore. Here’s a fuzzy picture of them halfway through washing them.
Radishes
I pulled the first radishes out of the garden yesterday. They were pretty small, but they were getting crowded, and it’s always nice to have those first fresh ones of spring.
First Radishes of 2009
Also got the green beans planted, just in time for the rain that’s falling today. They’re mostly Blue Lake bush beans, which always do well, but we’re also trying some Contender this year. The catalog really talked those up.
Things are growing fast now, including the weeds, so I pulled a bunch of those yesterday and gave them to the chickens. They’re growing fast too; I’m going to have to get a chicken house built in a couple weeks so we can get them out of the garage.
Ok, I’m definitely back to daily blogging as of now. Yes indeedy. The Big Project that’s been consuming all my time and energy went live this weekend, and there’s still some debugging to do and additions to make, but the bulk of the pressure is gone. I learned some things about myself and programming in the process, which I’ll talk about some other time.
New Latin Lesson #13: the vocative case and imperative mood—the two things you need to know to give commands. Next lesson will start on the third declension, which is harder than the first two, but it’s also the one with the most useful words. I keep wanting to put excerpts from prayers and scripture in my lessons, and I can’t because they always have a few third declension words in them. You can read a lot of stuff without knowing the fourth and fifth declensions, but without the third it’s tough.
I got the other garden bed ready the other day, adding a few inches of compost and a bit of topsoil on top to make it easier to plant in. I planted a row each of radishes and turnips in it, but it looks like birds made off with some of them. If they don’t start showing up soon, I’ll have to replant and put chicken wire over it this time.
In the other bed (which had chicken wire from the start) radishes starting poking through a couple days ago, but I haven’t seen anything else yet. This rain today should give things a boost, but now we need a warm, sunny day to work with the moisture. Lows in the 30s like tonight’s forecast won’t speed things up much.
