Sunday afternoon, planted spinach seeds and onion sets in half of one of our big raised beds. Yum, can't wait for the spinach to get big enough to eat. Planning on planting lettuce seeds soon - if the weather isn't too blustery like the last two days. I have a few tiny cabbage, broccoli-raab, leeks and radicchio plants coming up. At the same time I planted those, I planted shallot sets that Roger bought for me. Love to cook with them! (Kinda like mild onions with slight garlic flavor.) Have you seen the price of them in the grocery store? Weeding the flower beds should be the next task - between planting veggie seeds
My daffodils are done and a few tulips I have are blooming very nicely. Sweet peas are up and I have some extras in small pots to share if anyone would like some.
We bought some tree seedlings at Weyerhaeuser's Rochester nursery on March 20th. Since we don't yet know exactly where to plant 30 Douglas Fir, 10 Nobles, 5 Red Twig Dogwood, 15 Fraser Fir plus others, we have been using tall nursery pots and burlap bags for their temporary homes with some sifted topsoil we had leftover from the building project.
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Both the King County and Pierce County Conservation Districts have bare root plant sales in the winter. It is too late for this year, but you might want to bookmark the sites for next year if you want native plants.
ReplyDeleteKing County's site is here:
http://www.kingcd.org/pro_native.htm
and Pierce: http://www.piercecountycd.org/treesale.html
They have a good list of the trees and plants that are on sale, and you usually have to order in advance. A couple years ago I bought 20 cedar seedlings for $10, I think. You can get all kinds of native plants and bushes.