Gardening in Mid Coast Maine {Zone 6a} Late April

It was non stop rain here on Monday and Tuesday but luckily, things are starting to clear up now. Hopefully I’ll be able to head outside later today and get a little work done in the kitchen garden.

For starters, I need to finish mulching the rhubarb with the seaweed I brought up from the shore a few days ago. After I get that done, I’ll plant a few more rows of radishes and then a row of lettuce.

The good news though is that the pea plants are doing well.

And the asparagus is up, and looking beautiful. The crowns were only planted last year and according to Johnny’s {which is where I bought my asparagus crowns from} one year after planting, the asparagus can be harvested in the spring for 7–10 days.

If we harvest any more than that, we could damage the young plants. But hey, We’ll take what we can get.

The 6 cabbage seedlings I set out a few days ago are doing well. 

All the tender plants I started are still inside though, nice and cozy under the grow lights and protected from the wind and the rain. Where they’ll mostly likely stay for another 2-3 weeks until things warm up a bit more outdoors. 

My tomato plants are coming along… All 125 of them. Last year I think I planted about 65 tomato starts in the garden. We’ll see how many make it to the religious family sized garden plot this year. 

I always like to start a few extra tomato plants just in case. And this year, if I end up with too many, I can always sell my extras at The Duck Lady’s stand so it’s a win-win.

In other gardening news, The Duck Lady picked up our seed potato order from The Maine Potato Lady yesterday.  

This is the first year I’ve bought seed potatoes from the company, so we’ll see how it goes.

Here’s what I ordered:

10# Yellow Finn 
5# Red Maria 
3# French Fingerling
3# Austrian Crescent 
3# Magic Molly

24 pounds of seed potatoes. I hope that’s enough! I feel like I should have ordered more of the fingerling potatoes as those are our favorite, but we’ll see.

I need to remember to document how many pounds we harvest from each variety this year so I’ll know how many seed potates to order next year. Gardening, it’s a never ending learning process. And I love it.

How about YOU? What’s popping up in your garden these days? Is your asparagus up yet?

Have a good one,
~ Mavis

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