Adventures in growing edibles veganically in a small townhouse backyard in Ottawa, Canada. (veganic since ~2021)
Friday, April 28, 2023
2 broccoli moved to north bed
Dill transplanted -- hopefully real soil will remove their terrible wimpy/leggyness
"Tendersweet" carrots sowed in grey containers
Carrots and beets appearing, but hoping a lot more appear soon because gappy
Will wait another week or so before filling in the gaps with more seeds.
Tulled all transplanted broccoli, kale, and chard
Radishes sown: Avignon and Daikon
Monday, April 24, 2023
Dills starting to be hardened off (need to free up space under the lights)
Sunday, April 23, 2023
Up-potted tomatoes -- wimpy root systems! Dills also looking similarly lanky and somewhat floppy
Saturday, April 22, 2023
Tomatoes are all really lanky and floppy! So weird
Thursday, April 20, 2023
Broccoli, chard, kale, celery, parsley, lettuce transplanted (some still left in pots for now)
Peas transplanted, with some amendments but no alfalfa
Planted the pea peat pots.
Sprinkled a tablespoon each of kelp meal, mrp, and azomite under each tray essentially. No alfalfa pellets added since I heard peas like to take care of their own nitrogen, thank you very much.
Also scraped/tore at the pots to give more room for the roots to come out.
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Everything brought inside for tonight (0 degress) and tomorrow night (-5)
Will just keep them inside tomorrow during the day and put them back out on Thursday.
Monday, April 17, 2023
Bought "Superior" seed potatoes
$1.49 a pound, in the bulk section at Ritchie's. Bought 2 pounds. Wayyyyy cheaper than the "gourmet" packages.
So, this year will plant the sprouted left overs from last year's harvest (Banana fingerling), plus these.
Saturday, April 15, 2023
-3 forecasted for Wednesday night, so holding off transplanting most things
Only translated one pot of green onions so far. The rest I'll wait until after Wednesday night.
Transplanted some green onions into pot -- the only transplants so far
Up-potted the broccoli instead of transplanting; it doesn't look great but I think will survive
Thursday, April 13, 2023
Beets started in ground (after soaking overnight)
Westmost foot is exclusively my home-collected cylindrical seeds; the eastmost foot is a mix of package detroit dart red seeds and my home-collected cylindrical seeds.
Method I followed this year:
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Carrots started in ground
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
Lesson learned: Start/grow all kale and chard inside -- WS not needed
Monday, April 10, 2023
Organic alfalfa pellets bought
From Kinburn Farm Supply. $34 total (there's no tax) for 55 pounds. So, I'll use up the last few cups of my non-organic alfalfa pellets, then will be happy to shift to these. Should last a good long while!
Dill round 2 started in PT -- so far only 2 of first round have germinated
Sunday, April 9, 2023
Left-over potatoes (Banana fingerling) harvested last year have eyes -- will use them for seed potatoes
Too bad I didn't get to eat them, but on the bright side I might not need to buy any seed potatoes this year!
All snow now gone from yard
First lettuce harvest -- from indoor-sown/raised on March 12th! Kale slow and didn't start enough?
Saturday, April 8, 2023
First day of direct sun for hardening-off plants
40 minutes today. (In the shade for the rest of the day, and in at night because nights still going below zero.)
Friday, April 7, 2023
Started in PT (bowl for peas): Peas, zinnias, callaloo(/amaranth), basil, tomatox3
Peas: Sugar Snap
Zinnias: My usual mix -- this time all from 2018-collected seeds (to start using up the older seeds)
Basil: Prospera (same as last year)
Tomato: Mortgage Lifter (my first time growing this -- from La Ferme de l'Aube), Big Tofu Plus, and Jasper
Callaloo(/amaranth): From the person at work.
Sunday, April 2, 2023
Barese round 2 in PT (because didn't start enough first round)
And because the outdoor WS ones are so far behind, might as well start an indoor round 2.