Vibrant pink peach & sowing cold hardy crops

The cold nights brightened the peach tree blooms. The petals were a light pink, turned fuchsia. These magnificent blooms are hanging on by a thread, as the limb has broken off almost completely from the tree.

On this Wednesday of early April, it was almost 90 degrees here in Kentucky. For this time of year it was quite hot. I took advantage of the pretty and sowed more Spinach seed, radish, turnip, rutabaga, lettuce, arugula, kale, leeks, parsley, basil, beets, and collard seed! I planted the seeds across 4 garden beds. I have more garden beds to plant in, but I'm not sure what to sow or transplant in those yet.

Here are turnip plants flowering, as they turn into Spring. They grew throughout the fall and winter months, mostly recoiling, but making a come back in these warm days. 

Other plants flowering in the garden are kale and soon to be cilantro, swiss chard, arugula and radish, as these plants have also are grown throughout the fall and winter months. I love when veggie plants flower, because that means they will go to seed and I can collect the seed for future sowing!...And, as we know, tending to a garden is to believe in a future...

Mulched Fall Garden, fig harvest, & Fall greenhouse beauty

 Last Friday was bitter cold. It was down in the 30 degrees F. In the evening, I made sure to cover the garden plants to protect them from frost. The next day, I uncovered them and heavily mulched the veggie garden. I was able to get a truck load of mulch to cover the arden of broccoli, cauliflower and kale. The remaining bit of mulch, I placed around the fruit trees and some fruit bushes. In order to mulch the rest of the fruit bushes, I'm going to need another load of mulch! 

Below are pictures of the veggie garden I mulched Saturday.

The greenhouse I went to to get the mulch, was colorfully decorated again, this time with some new flare. A couple posts back, I showed the cute fall settings at the greenhouse, but I'm adding more here..

I was also able to pick some figs too last weekend. Of course, they were delicious!

Tulip Spring garden, veggie garden & blooming fruit treed

There's many beautiful varieties of tulips in the garden right now. I composted around them too to help them along.

Plum and pear trees blooming

Peach and nectarine trees blooming

Their enchanting and when I'm feeling uneasy about life, I look at the flowers.

I also have broccoli and cauliflower transplanted in the garden beds, a long with onion bulbs. I transplanted these today and I transplanted a lilac bush today as well.

I have more broccoli and cauliflower that are seedlings I started from seed. They're growing very slow, so I'm waiting to transplant them when they mature, and then transplant them in my other garden.

There's tomatoes and pepper seedlings I started from seed as well, and they're quite small so I'm waiting to transplant them when they mature.

There's strawberry plants I put in pots, as well. I don't seem to have luck with these if I'm growing them in beds. And I have purple potatoes planted in the pots as well.

I bought a 50 lb. Bag of kennebac potatoes to transplant those on good Friday as the saying goes. I'll be planting them in the grow bags again because that seems easy and successful.

If you want to see a little garden tour, go on over to the YouTube channel at vegans living off the land to watch the newest video and others like it. Or you can simply watch below.

Eating microgreens in january (growing indoors)

Everyday these seedlings grow taller and greener. Last night I cut from the tray of Daikon radish seedlings. They were getting mature, so it's time to harvest them. I ate the seedlings as a garnish over vegan ramen with kimchi.

I don't remember what I planted here. Maybe I didn't because nothing is growing yet. 

The turnip greens are very lush. I can't wait to harvest them to eat in a salad or sandwich.

I'm excited for the new year of growing. I have bigger plans and ideas! So stay tuned.

Filling the garden with more seedlings & other work

The greens are getting bigger by the day, and I continue to transplant more seedlings around them. Although they're small seedlings, I have many different types in one area.

There are three rows of a mix of carrots, kale, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, peas, collards, spinach, cilantro, beets, swiss chard, lettuce, and radishes that will grow symbiotically. These are perfect cool weather crops to grow together.

The weather has turned hot and dry so I have had to diligently water the garden. The greens and potatoes are thankful for the water because they growing quickly...

In this garden bed, I watered the squash varieties (straightneck, cushaw, and pumpkins) I sowed days ago, then covered them in the evening. The moisture and heat will jump start the seeds. 

I did the same for the cucumber varieties in another garden bed, and layed out the trellis to assemble it for them to climb as they grow.

Here I have worked the soil, adding compost of my own, even adding compost that I bought under this polytunnel where I'll grow watermelons.

I have two beds that have hard clay soil which I have also been amending with compost, vermiculite, perlite. The soil is so hard though that I'm simply going to dig holes for compost around tomatoes and peppers-- which I've already started indoors. I've already made the holes, added the compost and poles, but I'm going to wait till the tomatoes and peppers get bigger before transplanting.

I'm excited because there's food growing all, over the yard and I see progress -- especially the blueberries that are already forming their blue fruits.

9 blueberries-- most blooming and forming fruits