I trimmed the collard greens last weekend and they responded by filling back in quickly. Hopefully my childish fear about cutting greens has been put to rest.
The broccoli looked pretty sad though.
Since the collards still look good I decided to transition only the broccoli box.
This is my first year of moving from a fall garden to a spring garden and I’m not really sure what you are “supposed to” do. I thought would make sense to rake the soil, old roots and leaves in the box sort of creating its own compost. I pulled the drip hose out and got out my garden rake, a short toothed rake, not to be confused with the long toothed leaf rake.
After I raked through a lot of old roots I put the drip hose back in and added two more bags of fresh soil. For a little less then $6 a bag I thought I was a good investment.
I smoothed out the soil fully covering the drip hose. I’m still a little adverse to mulch and although I know I’m going to need it I’m hopeful that burying the drip hose in the dirt will buy me some time.
To finish the transition from fall to spring I planted my second attempt at green beans. Six seeds.
Last fall with little effort the bush green bean seeds quickly sprouted. About three weeks later the unexpected early freeze arrived and they froze. I didn’t properly store the seeds so I’m going to give these a few weeks to sprout and worst case I'll buy some new seeds . If all goes well though, according to the back of the seed packet, in about 52 days there will be beans to be picked. It also recommends planting seeds every two weeks for a full season's crop. I'm still evaluating that option.
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