{"id":3218,"date":"2008-03-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromutopia.com\/?p=3218"},"modified":"2008-03-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T06:00:00","slug":"early-spring-in-utopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/early-spring-in-utopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Early spring in Utopia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those garden maps<\/a> I posted a while ago are already proving to be flexible, guideline-type things. Only March 16th and already I’ve done some revisions. I had planned to just do broccoli from seeds, but a cute little pack of organic local broccoli starts followed us home from the market today and took the places where the first broccoli seeds were to be sown. (I’ll give the seeds a try for later sowings, as I’m planning to do succession sowing with the broccoli.) <\/p>\n

See how cute? How could I not bring them home?
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Whatsmore, the map-as-it-was allowed room for four plants, but the pack came with six. What to do? Annex the top two feet of the aisle for broccoli plants. This will mean some acrobatics when it comes time for weeding, but hey…if I screw up my back I live with a great physical therapist, so.<\/p>\n

Here’s the garden as it looks now:
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Beet, carrot, chard, and spinach seeds under the dirt and hopefully soon to poke their heads out, and the new broccoli starts planted and settling into place. And a strawberry pot.<\/p>\n

Ah, the strawberry pot. I ordered Ranier strawberry plants from Territorial<\/a> and they arrived on Friday. Picked up a strawberry pot on Friday night, got the strawberries into the pot yesterday (Saturday). Territorial sent 25 plants, and there are only 12 pockets on the strawberry pot (I didn’t count the plants before I bought the pot), so I took over part of the ornamental garden on the opposite side of the yard from the vegetable garden, and planted the rest of the strawberry plants on the hill we have there. So a strawberry patch amid the flowers…that pleases me. Though it’s also pretty damn funny that only two weeks into my food gardening adventure I’m already stealing space from the decorative plantings. The hydrangeas are lucky I love them, because I’ve caught myself eyeing their spots too.<\/p>\n

About that strawberry pot, though…I decided to trust its design, that one plant could indeed grow in each pocket and because of the vertical nature of the spacings that would give each plant room enough. But if you read the instructions that came with the plants, it doesn’t seem like enough space. So I may have sacrificed 12 of those plants to a doomed strawberry pot experiment. If so, at least we’ll still have the patch on the little hill.<\/p>\n

Also, young strawberry plants look like aliens. Totally. Check it out:
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Outside of our little yard, Portland is in bloom. A few examples for you that don’t begin to do this city justice. I am so in love with this place:<\/p>\n

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And soon to come: Actual knitting content. I’m nearly done with the second Trilce sleeve. Should have that sweater done soon.<\/p>\n

AND: I bought a big Mason jar today for the sourdough starter, will get that going tonight.<\/p>\n

That is all. I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those garden maps I posted a while ago are already proving to be flexible, guideline-type things. Only March 16th and already I’ve done some revisions. I had planned to just do broccoli from seeds, but a cute little pack of …<\/p>\n

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