With sunny skies and temps in the mid 50’s, Sunday was a perfect day for planing spring crops. This time around I planted French Breakfast & Crimson Radish seeds as well as Monstrueux de Viroflay Spinach from Botanical Interests Seed Company.
The French Breakfast Radish is a new one for me. I’ve seen these yummy radishes at the farmers market before but I have never tried them. According to the package I should expect to be pulling up radishes in about a month. I can’t wait.
And the spinach… Well let’s just say the Handsome Husband will be excited when the leafy greens are ready to be harvested. Ever since he bought The Girl a blender for her birthday he has turned into a smoothie freak. The HH intends to make spinach smoothies {oh yum} as soon as it’s ready to be harvested.
Is it just me? Is he weird? Have you tried a spinach smoothie before?
My new garden assistant: Big Martha.
I still have about 45 days until the tomato plants are ready to go into the garden boxes {Mother’s Day is the best time to plant tomatoes in the Seattle area}. So I went ahead and planted both the radish and spinach seeds in my raised garden boxes. Just to be on the safe side though, I planted the seeds about 6″ from the edges as well as down the center of the garden beds. Although the radishes are supposed to be ready to harvest in 28 days, the spinach can vary from 28- 50 days.
By planting the seeds near the edge of the garden boxes and down the center, if the radish and spinach are not ready to harvest by the time the tomatoes need to go into the ground, everything will be fine. There will still be plenty of room for my tomato starts.
Planning ahead is key when you are dealing with a limited amount of growing space. There is nothing worse than planting to much of one item and running out of room for the next. Tomatoes, potatoes and squash are my first priorities this year. But with a little planning, I think I’ll be able to fit everything in I want to grow.
Ye–Haw! Now we’re farming!
Did you get a chance to work in the garden last weekend?
What’s on your to-do list?
~Mavis
Robbie says
Have you tried Perpetual Spinach? We grow it here in Texas as it has a loonnngg growing season. It’s a member of the beet and chard family/species(?) that tastes like spinach. Maybe next year’s seed order…
Mavis says
I’ll look it up. Thanks. 🙂
Heather S. says
I’ve never tried a spinach smoothie, but it’s probably a good way to sneak in some good nutrition for the kids 🙂 My neighbor has one of the fancy smancy (almost a word) blenders and made spinach ice cream once (in the blender). It was actually not too bad. Her kids loved it – they eat healthier than mine. My kids thought it was just so so, but weren’t grossed out by it. If I had one of those blenders, I’d try more combos. Mine does okay for the smoothies, but doesn’t have a jet engine like the other ones so I couldn’t swing the ice cream in it.
Mavis says
Spinach Ice cream? Shhhh. Don’t tell my husband. 😉
Desi says
Mavis my dad makes spinach smoothies all the time in their blender. They are very good and healthy. Great way to eat your spinach and fruit together!