Started planting the lettuce for fall/winter in the cold frame too.
Black Seeded Simpson, Really Red Deer Tongue, Flashy Green Butter Oak, Monet Cutting, Lingue De Canarino, Revolution, and Bronze Arrowhead. Also planted Mispoona Salad Select
This is the time when there are weeks weeds everywhere: weeds in the paths, weed in the beds, weeds in the borders. Weeds everywhere. At the same time though, lots of plants look really good. The leeks look great, the potatoes are doing well, the beets look really good. The French beans are about ready for the first picking, we picked our first cherry tomatoes two days ago, and so on. A lot of lettuce has bolted, I do need to pull it all up and put it on the compost. And I need to buy some BT for the brassicas. They started out looking so good under the row covers but once they grew too big for that, the moths found them. I picked the first Kohlrabi this morning, it’s beautiful.
Yesterday I prepared two more beds and put tomatoes and basil in one bed, and lettuce transplants from the cold frames into another.
The tomatoes were a six pack of paste tomatoes -Bellstar, Orange Banana, Amish Paste, Roma, Grandma Mary’s Paste, and Heinz 2653. There was room at the end of the row for two more so I put in two Rose de Berne .
In the next bed I transplanted three lettuce varieties from the cold frames: Blushed Butter Cos, Really Red Deer Tongue Gene-Pool Lettuce OG, and Les Orielles du Diable OG (Devil’s Ear) Lettuce OG
Didn’t get nearly as much done as planned today because we went to a friend’s farm where they were raising a timber framed cabin. When we got back I ended up just moving the Revolution and Cracoviensis lettuces from the cold frame where I sowed them on March 30th. I planted them 3 across the bed, 10″ apart in the row, and they look great. I had two of the Cracoviensis left over, couldn’t bring my self to throw them out so I found room for them in front of the cucumbers.
On 5/3 I planted more lettuce in the left cold frame:
Bronze Arrowhead Oakleaf
Forellenschluss
Rouge D’Hiver Romaine
Blushed Butter Cos
and
Catalogna Radichetta - since it didn’t germinate when I planted it earlier.