Most of my favas are up and looking great but there were a handful of holes. I brought their packets down with me today and replanted to fill them. I'm not sure if it's too late for them to do well or not but it's worth a try. I added one Ianto's, six Masterpiece, one Sweet Lorane, and one Windsor. I also ran a scuffle hoe through the beds so the green weeds you can see in this picture should be shriveled to nothing within a day or two.
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| Freshly hoed favas with radishes to the left |
I also thinned the May 6 radish planting, ran the hoe through the rest of the bed on the east side of the peas and planted the second round. These are also French Breakfast. The (rather crooked - not sure what happened there) picture is of the first planting. Again, the weeds you see in this picture should be gone soon although there is some quack grass on the western side of the peas that I'll have to dig out.
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| Peas and radishes |
I hoed the bed that will have beans (visible in the fava pic) and spot weeded a few areas in the onions. There's more to do there but I'm waiting for a shiny new short handled Rogue hoe that I want to use for weeding them. It should be a great trial run.
Lastly, I planted two clumps each of thirteen varieties of Amaranth. I'm direct seeding them to see if they'll mature that way as I'd like to start less stuff inside. Even if they don't, I should get plenty of greens. Each little white tag in this picture represents a variety and while they may not look like much now that row should be gorgeous later on!
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A row of freshly planted amaranth |
Speaking of which, the Red Farro quinoa is poking out in little clumps. I'll have to thin these to one or two plants each soon but not just yet.
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| Red Farro Quinoa seedlings |
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