Freedom Gardening and Foraging

Garlic is Up

And apparently my pinky was up when taking the picture 🤣 Don't have a good explanation for that. Planted arugula in the bed its the garlic. Figured they are unlikely to bother each other much. Also got my allium starts in. Onions, shallots and leeks.

Honeydew Melon

Pepper Update

Look at all those seedlings. I think there are near 50 of them and probably 14 varieties. There are two odd peppers in the batch. One is in the foreground on the right, you can see it is a tricotyledon instead of a typical dicotyledon. Not an extremely rare mutation, but definitely a mutant. Then in the back left you can see the really pale seedling. I'm not sure if it even has chlorophyll, which obviously if it doesn't, it will die, but I'm waiting to see what the first true leaves look like.

Peppers

Apparently, my peppers heard me talking about them being slow and how the tomatoes I just planted would beat them to sprout. They did not appreciate the insult, but I do appreciate them showing up.

Tomatoes Are First They poked through a couple days ago. Still waiting on the rest.

I'm keeping things simple this year in the garden to direct more attention to tree maintenance and building a new sheep barn .. and a wood shed .. and maybe a high tunnel. Stuff on the left - things i should already had in the ground weeks ago, dent corn and millet for chickens and artichokes for me. The rest will plant throughout the rest of March and April.

and a few flowers for pollinators and catnip for the cats

Garden Cleanup

Finally, some of the snow has cleared up and things are thawing out. So, garden cleanup and prep has started. You can see some plants overwintered just fine (I'm looking at you collards). March is always a blur of activity, so hopefully I make good progress on cleanup and prep this week. Also finally cleared out some space to start my peppers and tomatoes indoors, so I'll be getting on that.