Beautiful day here, though more breezy than I like.
In the main garden, I tilled in fertilizer, then used the hiller/furrower to till trenches to make raised rows. I planted 120 Walla-Walla sweet onion transplants in 2 rows, one on each side of one trench; then put some spinach & radish seed in the trench itself.
Two more trenches close together gave me a wide, raised center row, which got some of each of 2 types of carrots, and some beets; straw mulch finished that job. The top of one of the outside furrow tops got 80 purple onion sets.
-—/\_/^^^\_/-— ground level; furrowed up soil with onions; trench; center raised wide row; trench; other, unused, furrowed up soil & back to ground level.
Meanwhile, I had sugar beet seeds soaking, to be ready for the next act. I used the garden tractor & trailer to haul fertilizer down to last year’s rye patch that I tilled in March, and spread enough for a single 60’ X 2’ row, then rode back up to walk the tiller down there. I deep-tilled not only the fertilizer, but a full 40 X 60 plot, since I’ll plant corn down there later. Walked the tiller back to the garden, and tractored back down to plant the now well soaked sugar beet seeds: planted 136 of the 100 I bought. ;-) Bountiful Gardens included a notation that the germination rate met government requirements, but not their own expectations, so they included extra.
Also harvested 14 more asparagus spears, to go with yesterday’s 16.
Back at the house, I took the (Easter?) lily (Mrs. AR rescued it at the yard waste dumping site in town yesterday, when we took a load in) out of the water I had soaked it in overnight, and got it potted. It looked much happier than when we brought it home. It was green, but dry & droopy, and still had its potting soil firmly around its roots when she spotted it.
Bonus: when I took it out of the water, most of its soil washed off, and it has several healthy bulblets detaching from the main bulb & putting out their own roots.
I had to restrain myself to partial plantings, as ‘last frost’ date is 5-25, but this entire Spring has been so mild that wanted to take a chance with partial plantings, in case it turns into a hot Summer early, too. OTOH, we typically get a few inches of snow in May.
That’s amazing to me all that you get done in a day’s time.
We are strictly manual for all our gardening stuff. No tractor or anything like that. Hubby told me that he planted 168 corn seeds per bed in the corn patch. We have 3 beds - That’s over 500 plants.
I’m going to have to double check that figure tomorrow - if I understood it right, we are going to need a bigger freezer!
He got the seeds from the local feed store. Peaches and Cream. He did not verify that they are not GMO.
Just asked for the most popular corn variety.