What Are You Planting Today, This Week, This Month?

Marie2020

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I planted these purple potatoes over a week ago. I'm hoping to add some to my garden soon.

These are showing good progress in a pot already
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Onion and Leek seed went into the starter mix this week. The flat was left in the greenhouse with no heat but they shouldn't have much problem if the seed tries for a quick start. Despite what the calendar says, we are having Spring-like weather with freezing only overnight and a fair amount of daily sunshine. Still, I will allow the calendar to guide me because of past trial and error.

Some seed for those early, tough, macho ... Pansies were also started :).

Anise Hyssop seed went in a berry box of soil. Trial and error are outta the frame of reference on those. I have relied on volunteers and survivors from almost the start but the few 2022 plants were not given much of a chance to grow and bloom because I was out so often to harvest. Both these and the Pansies are indoors in the kitchen with berry boxes covered with plastic film to maintain moisture.

Steve
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I planted these purple potatoes over a week ago. I'm hoping to add some to my garden soon.

These are showing good progress in a pot already
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I have 11 purple potatoes growing, too. They look like they are dying back, so they will be harvested soon. I will take pictures. Mine came up with purple leaves, but now they are all green.
 

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We have purple potatoes this year, also. Probably, I should have stayed with Purple Majesty since I have learned to eat them without closing my eyes ... ;). Instead, they are Huckleberry Gold ... since I learned long ago not to expect Yukon Gold to be loaded with butter just because they look like they are.

Huckleberries are mid-season and the plants are a lot smaller than the Yukons in the same bed. I hope they play out okay for production.

@Branching Out , will your late planting of lettuce be for seed saving as well for the kitchen? DW, the lettuce aficionado, has insisted that some of our special lettuce not be pulled ... we are going in competition with you as lettuce seed savers :). (We have some volunteers this year so know that viable lettuce seed can be saved in our garden.)

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I have 11 purple potatoes growing, too. They look like they are dying back, so they will be harvested soon. I will take pictures. Mine came up with purple leaves, but now they are all green.
There's a lot of potatoes planted in the back garden today. Red skins which are my favourite and just the white skinned plus a heap of the purple

The membrane was laid out to keep those weed at bay. I bet flowerbug would hate that. But this is so much easier for me
 
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