Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Well I guess it would actually be a Happy belated St. Patrick's Day! The Half Acre Farm had a very busy St. Patrick's day, we planted our potatoes and our onions. I read many articles on when the best time to plant potatoes and just about every master gardener says 2 weeks before the last frost, and the same goes for onions. However, I have always heard to plant your potatoes on St. Patrick's day, and if you miss that day plant them on good Friday. I question if the theory to plant on St. Patrick's day is more of an approximation that it is two weeks before the last frost. Honestly, I decided to go with the old wives tale to see what happens, based on the fact that it has just been so nice outside lately I just couldn't help myself. I had to get something in the ground!

 

I planted 80 sets of yellow onions, Enought for 2 and a half rows of onions. I couldn't let any go to waste and i didn't want to start another row just to plant half, so I planted the half row alternated between the two rows. If that doesn't make sense think of the number 5 side on a dice. I may not have plated them far enough apart, but we'll see.

 

Here are my potatoes. I read an article that you can supposedly grow 100 lbs. of potatoes in a 4 sq. ft. box. I bought white seed potatoes, I used 2x2 posts for my verticals and 2x4's for my edging. How this is supposed to work is as my potatoes sprout above the ground I will add another row of 2x4's and fill that row with dirt. I will continue to do this row by row until the box is approximately 3'-4' tall. Then when it's time to harvest I willo remove the bottom board and harvest the potatoes from teh bottom up. It seemed to make sense to me, I'm really looking forward to this experiment to see how well it produces potatoes!

 

Now I would like to report that yesterday on March 17th we had our first tomatoe plant germinate! we have 4 or 5 sprouts that came up yesterday. We planted our seeds on Friday the 13th and had our first sprout on Tuesday the 17th, so 4 days to germinate!

 

 

Blueberry Bush Report!!!

I didn't take a picture because I was very angry and upset last night, so I will just report to everyone what happened. Duke (the 21 week labarador puppy) dug up one of the blueberry plants. If you recall from yesterdays posts they didnt' look very good to begin with, and now I'm not sure I can do anything for it. I did place it back in its hole and will continue to nurture it but I'm afraid it might be toast now.