Brassica Planting!

[aldersprig]

Today I leveled (mostly) one of my 12" deep raised beds, by digging a hole down to the bottom of the 2' stake and then hammering the thing down with a mallet. Whee! HulkLyn Smash!

Then I used the backfilled hole to plant a Horseradish, because a 2' deep hole filled with loose dirt and peat is about the nicest, deepest hole I'm gonna get for a root plant like that.

Once I'd hauled over some more compost-dirt mix and peat moss and mixed the whole thing up like a particularly giant brownie mix, I started putting in the rest of the plants, yay! (well, first I laid down ground cloth).

This is Brassica Bed One - We're not growing many nightshades this year, to defeat the blight problem we've been having, so we're overcompensating with All Dah Brassicaceae. First in is a multi-color mix of cauliflower and then a four-pack of purple cauliflower. When I go back out, a row of baby bok choy. Whee!

It helps, I suppose, that we really like EATING brassicaeae.


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[inventrix]

I tend to refer to general brassica plants as "cabbage". Because no one can stop me. 8)

[aldersprig]

We're planting cabbage, too!

In our house, we do "cucurmids" (which is wrong, slightly)(Eta: they're Cucurbits), brassicas, and nightshades, although we tend to specify with nightshades because we grow SO MANY of them

Oh, and alliums.

[inventrix]

So, cabbages, squash and tomatoes? ;)

(And garlic.)

[aldersprig]

*snort* yes, wiseass. :-D