I made it to the plot for a few hours yesterday after work. It was really nice to make some headway. As I found out a few years ago, the more work that's done early on, the easier it is to maintain during the year.
First on the agenda was to turn over all the boxes that weren't already populated by onions, shallots, and garlic. I also cleared some soil away from the end of a box I need to replace due to rot.
While turning over the boxes, I did some weeding as I came across stray plants. I quickly came to realize that the far right corner of the plot became infested with mint. I'm sure I didn't get all the mint roots, but I sure did remove a lot of them. As I was pulling them out, I continually ran into more and more. It reminded me of a scene in the movie Aliens where the colonial marines first encountered the monsters and Hicks exclaimed, "they're coming out of the walls! They're coming out of the [gosh golly] walls!!!" Man, there were a lot of mint vines.
I was happy to see that some shallots (left) were coming up as well as a number of the garlic bulbs (right) that we'd planted.
The Walking Onions also looked great. As I expected, the established ones from last year (left) look awesome. The new ones that Wifey transplanted in the fall also look very good.
Lastly, I planted sugar snap peas, green beans, and scarlet runner beans in their boxes. In the case of the green and scarlet runner beans, I used beans that we'd grown and dried last year with the idea of trying to do seed saving. This is the first time we've tried growing beans from saved beans. I hope they germinate. In an attempt to improve the odds get have some come up, I double planted each location. Sorry, no picture. Didn't think that empty boxes would be all that impressive. "Yup. That's dirt in a box, alright." I still need to plant beans in the far right box in the corner. It's currently populated with garlic.
I hope to do some transplanting tomorrow. We'll see. Not sure if the plants have been hardened off enough.
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