Yesterday, Mike went to a local nursery and bought our pepper plants (green bell, red bell, pablano and jalepeno), herbs, tomatoes for the actual garden box (the ones in the greenhouse will be patio tomatoes), but he could not find eggplant! Last year we never found the pablano peppers - which are my very favorite.
It is pouring down rain, so we won't get those planted today. It's also cooler today - might not even get to 60 degrees. Odd for Georgia in late April! Usually we are already getting the pool ready by now, but we are barely in the 70's, if at all lately.
I am very excited to report that my turnips are already coming up! They are the fastest and the first summer plant to harvest! (We have lettuce, broccoli and cabbage as well - the broccoli may be ready to harvest next week and the cabbage is coming on as well!)
Unfortunately, we are very weed-ridden this year. We did not have the time to re-do all the boxes with fresh soil, so the weeds are just rampant. Mike bought something - not sure what - to try and deal with it, so I will report what and how well it works as we go!
I'm very excited about our garden this year! I'm hoping we can keep up our work on it. May is always a really busy month and this year we have a college graduation to deal with on top of the usual elementary school events, plus a high school child ready to take her driver's license test if I can just manage to get her to a DMV to do it! Gah! Sometimes the garden just doesn't make it for all the things we have to do, but we are really going to try!
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