The weather is cold and wet, or dry and dust-stormy take your pick! We’ve been out to the Millwoods plot for a couple hours every evening this week so far. We picked up a load of scrap 2×4′s from the construction yard and replaced the really crappy scrap wood we found on monday night. so now we’ve got almost all the wood dug into place forming our in-ground veggie beds. I’ve got 2 more to do then can mark out the spacings for the various plants and put up the trellises for the climbing plants. We should be able to plant this weekend! The Camrose plot is at the stage of building and putting up the trellises and acquiring compost. we should be able to start planting this weekend there too.
I still haven’t been able to get the tomatoes and cukes outside to start hardening them off since everytime I’m ready to do it a storm with high winds blows through! Well, we’ll start with the seeds that need to germinate outside and get to the tomatoes by midweek, then we’ll use row cover for a bit with the tomatoes until they are ok to get exposed to the elements completely. And the landlord definitely doesn’t like our temporary plant shelter (greenhouse), so we really need to get some decent weather to harden those plants off and dismantle the shelter once done. Next year i’ll come up with some other solution to harden off the plants. Maybe I’ll build portable coldframes that you can break down flat that are no taller than the fence surrounding our place.
I’ll be taking a couple pictures tonight once the last 2 beds are dug in, and then again as the trellises go up!
