Just checking in. Glad you are doing well and hope the PT is helping.
I have some good news and bad news. Good news is that I’ve gotten my seedlings into pots and I think most are doing well.
I planted the 2 amaranth seedlings, and I am sorry to report that they both bit the dust. The heavy rain the other day got the first one. Today I went out and the other guy had collapsed, and I don’t know the cause, but he was gone. *sigh*
I sewed a packet of red amaranth seeds from the Heirloom seed company the other day, so we’ll see if they decide to germinate and do things.
I am doing so much better than I was 4 weeks ago when I started PT. I was able to clear out one of the raised beds got rid of the leaves, cardboard, and a few weeds, and used the fork to lift up the soil.
It looks great. Now I need to mix in the compost, if the sun will stay shining a while. Going to put the potatoes in a cardboard box, medium light to encourage sprouting tommorrow this will go on for a week or two while I finish preparing the potato bed.
Haven’t started the Amaranth yet, but will be starting it in flats(used 1 qt. OJ boxes). Hope that the strong winds will be kinda on the wane at transplant time. Amaranth does well in hot kinda dry conditions they say.
So that’s my solution to all the rain this year. Try to collect all I can for later, and go ahead and plant stuff in containers for transplant later. I just don’t deal well with all that work being flushed away, cause I am a lazy gal at heart.LOL
Oh yeh, I checked the greens experiment today. Mushroom Compost wins hands down for all three: Little Gem, Spinach, and Leaf Lettuce. In fact, I need to transplant some of it ASAP. So I am thinking of just dumping a bunch of Mushroom Compost into the other sections, and transplanting stuff there. Either that or just put it into some containers.