Tuesday, May 11, 2010

mother nature's crappy garden

well, spring has yet to be, here in utah.  and my garden shows it.  i have some onions, spinach, lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, radish, peas and potatoes coming up- but they are small.  lettuce should almost be ready to harvest by now- and mine are about 2 inches tall.  so i wonder what kind of 'salad' crop we'll even have this year.  my plan is to get the full garden in on saturday.  the beans, tomatoes, squash, cucumber, zucchini, melons- all of it.  then we'll just pray for warmer weather. 

i was super excited today to find (in wal-mart of all places) some heirloom tomato plants.  i've been looking all over for them.  i got some pink brandywine and yellow pear.  i hope to be able to find more, but i'll be planting plenty of hybrids also.  it goes against everything i believe in- but the fact is heirlooms are hard to grow.  and if i want to have at least a decent tomato crop, i've got to plant some hybrids. 


1 comment:

Wendy said...

How was your trip? I hope you had a great time!