Mailman just came and the free seed packet is --- Radish, Japanese Wasabi (to go with the Arugala, Wasabi)
I didn't plan on oriental salads. I was just buying cool weather greens I've never had before.
Mailman just came and the free seed packet is --- Radish, Japanese Wasabi (to go with the Arugala, Wasabi)
I didn't plan on oriental salads. I was just buying cool weather greens I've never had before.
I forgot that Wasabi was a radish; I always thought it was some sort of powerful Horseradish, but they’re probably related somehow.
I had Horseradish coming up through BLACKTOP at my other farm. It’s hard to kill!
Had a bit of rain yesterday and last night. The rain is bringing in a cool front and the low for tomorrow and the next day is high 30s. Highs of 60-70.
Wasn’t it just 100 degrees a few weeks ago?
Pulled out seed packets of this and last year’s cool weather crop varieties. Added to what I just bought, I have 18 varieties of brassica/lettuce/greens and snow peas for Autumn/Winter salads. Doubt I’ll plant them all.
Just went out and cleaned up the little garden. Pulled all the slicer type tomato plants. Topped and thinned all the cherry type that are still producing. Kept one medium sized fruit type, Tappy’s Heritage, because production just recently took off. Six months later, Tappy says, I think I’ll grow some fruit now.
Chopped yellow leaves and over ripe green beans off and left brown pods to dry out from the rain. Once they’re dry again, I can pull them to save for seed and pull the plants. Left the shisitos because they have peppers and flowers and they don’t take up much space. I’ll interplant peas with them and they can take over the nice little raised bed. Probably throw some radish in there too and according to companion planting guides, they all get along just fine.
The remaining tomato plants are along two sides of the garden so that gives me plenty of space for greens. I’m going to direct seed by scattering seed in blocks down the rows and sprinkling fine compost over the seeds.
They’ll actually be taking root in compost mulch. The compost mulch is about 1-2” thick so the roots will be able to grow through that into the soil.
Got an operating system installed on my industrial grade PC and have the industrial touchscreen display hooked up to it.(tap to water) Going to set up a new pulse watering schedule to keep the soil moist at all times until the salad seeds sprout.
All this time looking at automation stuff for a high tunnel, I never thought I’d want to automate anything in the house but I now have a small LED light over the coffee maker that comes on at 4am, same time as my alarm goes off. The coffee maker is set to have coffee made by then. Now I just stumble out of bed and pour a cup and don’t even have to reach for a light switch that I can’t see. The LEDs are red so it doesn’t kill the eyes first thing in the morning. They turn off at 5:05am and I’m usually out the door by 5:00am. The red LEDs are something I had laying around from the electric sign business.