Outdoor Seed Sowing

Yesterday I finally managed to get my potatoes planted, sow carrots, beets, onions, peas and parsnip, having found enough compost to put on the beds. Today I sowed the chard and radishes.

This week I gave the raspberries and blackcurrants homemade compost and bought wood shredded mulch for the raspberries, that you can see here. I like it a lot better than the wood chips I was actually looking for.

I did another job I had been avoiding like the plague. Removing all the rocks I'd found while digging the 6 beds, and had collected on a pile, that I could never mow around. So they ended up today by the cement tiles in the compost corner.  Those rocks were blocking the way to an opening in the fence as well. The one I use to get my John Deer lawnmower through, to cut the blackberries growing on the neighbour's side and onto my side. I'll also be able to keep the grass down around the beds on that side, much better now.

Today I sowed my brussel sprouts in the potting shed along with coriander, savory and winter leek. My tomatoes, peppers and eggplants are developing well and will be getting a feed soon.

The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.
— Michael Pollan