Broccoli. cabbage, megshift greeen house

Starting on the left side of photo. I planted spinach seed. next row to the right yellow onion sets are up about 2 inches. Yesterday I was able to try out my new mini tiller. I put in 6 cabbage plants. 3 were planted with composted manure. And 3 with mushroom.compost. Row 4, I planted 6 broccoli,  using composted mushroom. Row 5, I planted 6 broccoli with composted manure added to the soil. I hope to compare and see if there is any difference in growth or outcome. I have never used mushroom compost before.

With all the rain and cold. I had to add plastic to the tomato area. It looks like it is working. The tomatoes still look good. I hope to prevent early blight by not letting the plants be hit by way too much rain.

I had a bit of help from my oldest grandson. We dug a trench and placed red potato cuttings, in a 12 foot row. I added a mix of topsoil and manure, to cover. After I see growth I will keep adding more soil mix and straw. till I end up with a mound of dirt.

This is an overview of the tomatoes This was a quick easy meg shift green house. I took aluminum wire. Like balling wire. ran it between the fence poles. Halfway up on outer sides.And near the top on the middle post.I used painters plastic tarps from a roll. They are 10x10.. I used duct tape to reinforce the seam in the middle. To make it 20x10. I used 2, 20x10  to cover the 12x 8 area. The rain did bring some parts to the ground safely. This helped to keep the plastic from blowing off. I used wood boards and garden tools to hold the sided to the ground.. It is not pretty. But it saved the plants. And held up better than a green house I built with pvc. And way less money spent this way.

If it ever stops raining long enough, I will add cardboard or news papers to the path between the rows.

Green house

I made a Temporary green house out of small pallets.
We have had so much rain. I needed to get the seedlings out side but it was not safe to plant them in the down pours of rain. so I set 2 pallets up on the ends, and placed one on to at the bottom. I use one with the base removed in the center. I tied them together with rope and secured them to the fence with rope. I used a plastic drop cloth for the cover and secured it with yarn. It has been up for almost a week now and is doing great.

GARDEN UPDATE
It is lime to cut an remove the lettuce that sprouted on its own from last year.

The garden in coming along slowly I managed to get the beans planted the last 2 days.

Sprouts are turning a bit yellow. I need to get them planted. ASAP

The Lunar planting calendar for this month is located at the bottom of the page.