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pinepigs_gardenI went out and planted some potatoes this afternoon. I can tell I've been sick: I was outside for just under an hour and I'm tired and stiff. I didn't do anything too heavy. I used the trovel to dig dirt out of 2 of the potato growing bags, mixed some of the dirt and compost together, planted the potatoes and covered them. I've given them both a bit of food, some snail pellets and watered them, as well as covering the 3 potatoes I planted about 3 weeks ago or so.
Today's plantings were: 4 "purple heart" and 4 urenika. I don't know what the purple heart will do as they were bought as eating potatoes and not seed potatoes, supposedly they aren't as good as seed if you do that. The urenika are Koanga's ones bought fresh this year but I think at the end of the season I'll save some for my own seeds next year.
The ones I did about 3 weeks ago were 2 unknown volunteers that sprouted up in another bag and one urenika.
The urenikas are the longest-growing so if I get them in the ground sooner than later I'll have a larger crop (in size of potatoes). I've still got at least 6-8 more seeds so I'll pull them out in a week or so to start chiting for planting soon. I've also got some paraketia and kowiniwini chiting, they've been chiting for awhile and are basically fine to plant now but I'll give them a couple more weeks or so to space my crops out. Besides, I need to buy more potato bags.
I have 1 potato bag available but am going to take it next door to our neighbor and have her son plant his own potatoes. I already told him that when the weather gets a bit better & I feel better we'll plant some tomatoes. They don't have much room but we can put the potato bag and the tomato tub in a corner and he can learn to watch and water them. He's maybe 6? so just young enough to be interested but not yet old enough to take full responsibility. His mom always jokes with me about when am I opening my fruit and veg stand. I figure this way they can have some fresh veg too and he can get some experience growing, hopefully to inspire him for when he's older. It's the kind of background I had, helping some friends of the family plant things and care for them and harvest them.
Today's plantings were: 4 "purple heart" and 4 urenika. I don't know what the purple heart will do as they were bought as eating potatoes and not seed potatoes, supposedly they aren't as good as seed if you do that. The urenika are Koanga's ones bought fresh this year but I think at the end of the season I'll save some for my own seeds next year.
The ones I did about 3 weeks ago were 2 unknown volunteers that sprouted up in another bag and one urenika.
The urenikas are the longest-growing so if I get them in the ground sooner than later I'll have a larger crop (in size of potatoes). I've still got at least 6-8 more seeds so I'll pull them out in a week or so to start chiting for planting soon. I've also got some paraketia and kowiniwini chiting, they've been chiting for awhile and are basically fine to plant now but I'll give them a couple more weeks or so to space my crops out. Besides, I need to buy more potato bags.
I have 1 potato bag available but am going to take it next door to our neighbor and have her son plant his own potatoes. I already told him that when the weather gets a bit better & I feel better we'll plant some tomatoes. They don't have much room but we can put the potato bag and the tomato tub in a corner and he can learn to watch and water them. He's maybe 6? so just young enough to be interested but not yet old enough to take full responsibility. His mom always jokes with me about when am I opening my fruit and veg stand. I figure this way they can have some fresh veg too and he can get some experience growing, hopefully to inspire him for when he's older. It's the kind of background I had, helping some friends of the family plant things and care for them and harvest them.