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Late March 2023

on March 29, 2023

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Given our climate change, the anxiety of spring centers on getting cool weather crops in early enough to avoid bolting, but late enough to not be completely killed off by heavy frosts. I would have sowed seeds last week, but with my recent surgery I was out of commission for a couple weeks. This weekend, however, I topped off the beds with fresh compost and direct-sowed the frost tolerant veggies of 2023! Into the beds went merlot lettuce, four seasons lettuce, watermelon radish, wasabi radish, Swiss chard, perpetual spinach, new kuroda carrots, as well as a mesclun lettuce mix and a carrot mix. My approach this year is a new one for me — seeding all the beds in early April and clear spaces for the next round by eating these vegetables. One of the benefits, I think, is that many of these might survive much later as they can stay cool in the shadow of other crops.

Rosemary's Baby

Too soon to be certain, but my barbecue rosemary — the one purchased at Meijer for a dollar last spring — may have survived the winter. In my growing zone, rosemary typically acts as an annual. Never before have my rosemary plants made it through the darkest parts of the year. This one, however, I brought indoors December through part of February (and forgetting about it...oops) before situating it in our breezeway. She's lost most of her branches. There is the tiniest bit of green growth in one area and this rosemary baby might see the spring.

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