Field Notes: Week 15
April 12-16
We finally opened up the Airport Heights Elementary School greenhouse. After a couple of weeks delay due to below zero nighttime temps, we fired it up!
I am blessed to be able to use this space and am excited to say that I’m assisting in their annual plant sale this year.
Stay posted as I will be helping them sell Garden Kits this year - full of a collection of popular and simple to grow veggie, herb, and flower starts.
Me in the greenhouse after moving plants from my home seed starting set-up (lights and shelves). Look at those freaking dahlias!!!
It happens every year… I am officially behind on planting!
Here’s what I was SUPPOSED to plant this week:
Scabiosa: fire king & black knight
Coreopsis hybrida: Incredible! Tall Mix
Cynoglossum: Firmament OP
Dill: Bouquet
Gomphrena: QIS Orange & QIS carmine
Grass: Ruby Silk
Grass: Highlander
Kale: Elegance
Nasturtium: Trailing Mix & Phoenix & Purple Emperor
Marigold: Giant Orange
Poppy: shirley
Saponaria: pink beauty
Zinnia: queen lime orange & queen lime with blush & Zowie Yellow Flame
Statice: QIS apricot & Rosysed
Here’s what I actually did plant:
Ranunculus: ALL my saved corms. Happy to say I saved around 200 corms from 2020.
Anemone: ALL
Oh well - you know what I’ll be doing tonight! Catching up on planting.
Last but not least: the kids and I started a planter garden on the front porch. Each planter is filled with a different salad green: arugula, spinach, lettuce mix, swiss chard, and baby kale.
We sprinkle the seeds on top of the soil - pretty close as we want lots of small baby greens. Then press down gently and water in. Then we’ll keep the seeds lightly watered until they germinate.
I’m so excited every year to do this as I get to plant a good 2-3 weeks before I can really get in my garden beds. And by that time we’ll be harvesting salad every night!
Once the salad greens are done I’ll move a few dahlias and tomatoes into those planters. This, dear friends, is a great method if you’re tight on space!