April 01

2011-04-01

Gardening in the High Desert

Seedlings that are up [sprouted] inside

Peat pellets
• 3 purple cone flower
  
• 1 white cone flower
  
• 1 vera tomato
  
• 2 cells curly parsley
  
• 2 cells tarragon just breaking ground
  
• 2 bee balm monarda
  
• 3 cells gama grass
  
• 3 tall vine tomatoes
  
• 1 dill bouquet
  
• 3 cells chamomile
  
• 2 Joe's Long Cayenne [pepper]
  
• 4 Shasta Daisy
  

Bedding Tray
• 4 Clumps garlic chives
  
• 9 Tam Jalapeños (2 not doing so well)
  
• 3 culinary sage
  
• 6 pomadore [tomato] (1 not doing well)
  
• 5 flat leaf parsley
  
• 10 Salvia Blue Bedder
  
• 3 red pear [tomato]
  

Purple Basil Tray Almost ready to transplant Tam Jalapeño Flat (6) not germ yet

Outside Status
• Spinach in ground has germinated
  
• 1 pea has pushed san aside
  
• I covered rows with some ferny weed leafs - hopes that hides them until they are too big for the birds to care
  
• Garlic beds doing well
  
• Weeded - lots of ferny things - pulled ones closest to the individual garlics
  
• No weeding for daffs, but I did feed and water ones buy west fence and the volunteer daffs and crocus
  
• Old Biddy followed me around and scored a big, fat caterpillar. That's about 4 I've dug up so far this year
  
• Read certain butterflies like to lay their eggs on parsley, so I think I shall plant more parsley. And cilantro, too. Maybe a whole swath in my tinny "wildflower" garden
  
  Watered
  • Bed 2 and 3
    
  • All Garlic
    
  • Volunteer daffs
    
  • Daff bed West
    
• Corn stubble - chickens have worked over the stubble - no over-wintered bugs there!
  
• Ferny weeds along the north and east corner - these will be the backdrop to wildflower are. I know some caterpillar eats them
  
• Watered and turned compost - not steaming, yet, but smelling more strongly of ammonia. Something is alive in there
  
• Ordered floating row covers. Hopefully they'll be here soon. I am ready to direct sow seeds.
  
  Direct Sow Candidates
  • White Sage
    
  • Sunflowers
    
  • Peas
    
  • Spinach
    
  • CA Poppies
    
  • Salvia
    
  • Turnips
    
  • Rutagega
    
  • Law Grass
    
  • Morning Glories
    
  • 4 O'Clocks
    
  • Lettuce Mix
    
  • Wild flower mix (in rows, so I know they aren't weeds)
    
  • Malabar spinach