Planting seeds in the rain

Tonight I followed the advice of the almanac.com planting calendar for my area and planted seeds... in the rain no less. I find that planting in the rain, a light rain not a downpour, is excellent for seeds planting!

In the new bed that is part shade I planted,
- Frosty Peas (Earl May seeds) - and this year I used an inoculate for the first time. We'll see if it helps because I've never had much luck with peas.
- Early Wonder beets (Earl May seeds) - I've planted these before with good luck
- and my favorite, Little Finger Carrots (Earl May seeds) - which I plant every year with good results every time.... yummy!

My seed trays are doing well although I realized late that I should've taken the plastic cover off sooner. My tomatoes are leggy, I hope they recover ok. I think I'll plant a few more tomato seeds just in case.

Darn did done it again!

Well I did it again.... waited too long to harvest.

Last night we had an unexpected snow. It was only supposed to be rain according to the forecast but after supper I looked out and realized there was a good inch of sloppy wet white stuff out there. We ended up getting a couple inches but today the sun is out and it's melting fast!

I've decided to let it melt a day and then go see what I can salvage of the carrots, beets, kale and leek. I'm sure the carrots, beets and leek are fine, but I'm not sure I'll get any beet greens or kale. We'll see tomorrow.

One of these days I'll learn. LOL!

Halloween and still gardening

So far the fall has been kind and even though there have been some chillier nights lately the garden is still going strong. I harvested the eggplant and the parsley this week because the temps were supposed to get down to freezing and I didn't want to lose them. There's still kale, beets, carrots, leeks and some of the hardier herbs in the garden to keep us going for awhile yet though.

Now I play the gambling game of when to harvest the last of the garden. The 10 day forecast is all over the place. I think I'll be ok though without finishing the garden off yet. Last year when I played this game I lost. The temps dropped for several days during a time when I was extremely busy and couldn't get out to the garden so the ground froze with the veggies in it. I'm not doing that again this November.

My goal is to harvest the last of the garden over the next two weeks. That way I should be able to prep the soil some before winter. We'll see how well I manage my time though....