We spent most of yesterday outside in the garden. It was such a gorgeous day and we got a lot done. The picture is from the end of the day, where all the potatoes are in the ground and Brock is giving them a good soak. We had 3 kinds of potatoes from last year, though we forgot to check what they were so this year we named them - Last years Red, Small round Ones and SFW - thats a safeway not safe for work =P , some of them started sprouting so we figured we plant them too since they have a decent flavour. They are the ones in the box with crazy long stalks.
In the bowl we have Russet Norkotah - Brock bought them and I went through the bag and cut them in to pieces making sure each piece had atleast 3 "eyes". We also had 2 yellow onions that we got for dog sitting that had green sticking out of them, I peeled the outer layers of and we had 4 starter onions to put in the ground along with 2 (out of the 4 ) bags of yellow and red onions seeds.
We planted the potatoes in the middle of the bed, with broad beans in between and put the onion bulbs on the south side of the beds so that they will get the most sunlight. On the north side of the beds we will alternate marigold, kale and basil. The bigger the potato stalks get the more shade they will give the kale. We will also sow radishes and spinach close to the potato stalks, that way we should get a harvest before the stalks grows to tall and shade the area out.
Look at this one,I think it looks like a little coral reef tho Brock think it looks like it should be the control piece of a alien ship about to invade earth.
The leaves are growing in the food forest part of the garden. Both of us really like hanging out here, it has quickly become our favourite spot. This is a panorama shot of it :)
I transplanted our alpine strawberries to the beginning of the rows. Two for each, and we had enough for 9 beds, not enough for all beds but we will find something else to put on the others. I wrote the names of the potatoes on the inside of pieces of bark I had from last years.
Rascal wanted to sit in my lap while I was busy planting potatoes, when I didnt pick him up he found his own solution. As you can see we have not finished all the rows in the garden. But we are working away at it a little bit at a time. We will add straw as mulch on top of the rows, as soon as we figure out a way for it to not blow away.
