I’ve attached some more pictures from our Opening Day and
that Susan took of our snow covered garden in March.
On the Wednesday after our opening day, we got a lot of
rain. However, I beat the rain drops by
about ten minutes and got my potatoes and peas into the ground and transplanted
a sage plant into our herb garden and a peony bush that I divided from my back
yard. Sadly, I was in such a hurry to
beat the rain that I forgot to bring my Epson salt with me. At March’s GCGC meeting, Marge from the SVDP
Garden had recommended putting Epson salt into the trench to help the
potatoes. After an extremely cold Saturday (which made
me glad that I declined OSU’s offer of students for April 9), I returned on
Sunday afternoon to plant some lettuce, spinach, cilantro and onions. I also tried to dig out some of our new
tulips that got covered with wood chips.
While I was there, neighbors Kevin, Jaden and Micayla
stopped by and offered to help. Kevin
and I installed our front gate. Then
Micayla helped me to plant my lettuce, onions and spinach before we selected a
raised bed for her and planted two red potatoes. It was still pretty chilly, so I decided to
call it a day and return to my house to mow, etc. With all of these plants in the ground, I was
delighted with the 24 hours of rain that we received on Monday.
On Thursday, Robert from Keep Columbus Beautiful called about having some
vegetable seeds available. So, off I
went to pick up carrots and other vegetable seeds for our gardeners. We also talked about heirloom beans and our
plans for Earth Day (which is coming up).
He’s also found a large group of volunteers for us in June, which is
always very helpful and appreciated.
This weekend is DeMonye’s annual perennial sale – something I
never miss. In fact, I tend to go as
soon as it opens. In addition to great
flowers, there are often perennial herbs for sale as well.
Tonight I hope to get potatoes planted in a food pantry
plot, as well as kale seeds. (I’ve
already put my Epson salt into my car so that I don’t forget it again). Then,
on Saturday, I’ll start putting my cabbage, broccoli and similar seedlings in
the ground. Tonight is predicted to be
the last cold night until next Fall. We
shall see. We’ve had an unusually windy
April and my portable greenhouse has been blown over several times. I weigh it down with full clay pots (which
are now all broken). Fortunately,
unlike past years, I’ve been more careful about putting my seedlings into the
greenhouse when it’s windy. So, I haven’t
lost any seedlings yet and haven’t gotten them mixed up (when they fall out of
the trays during a windy mishap).
On Saturday, I hope to also get our sign up over our front
gate and to reposition our benches. The
legs are so buried in our wood chips that you’re basically squatting when you
sit down. Speaking of wood chips, I’d
like to thank again Tree King for donating our wood chips this year. This is our second year of lucking into lots
of nice-smelling pine chips.
I’ve got more sage plants to share from my home garden. They are fairly large (i.e., they are not
seedlings). Just let me know if you’ll
put them to good use. They smell so
good, but there’s only so much sage a girl can use and there are other herbs
that need that space . . . . . .
With the several night-time freezes that we've had this week, I'm anxious to see if we get any cherries, peaches or strawberries this year . . . . Keep your fingers crossed. 
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