Garden roundup for April

Here’s a list of what I got planted in April.

Last year, my mom got a couple parsley plants figuring that my siblings would take a couple of them.  But nobody wanted any.  So there were three plants put in a pot that we picked off over the summer.  In the fall, the pot was brought inside and the plants … slowly became half-dead.  But once it warmed up, I planted them outside and they seem okay.

We had a really good onion harvest last year.  We still have a dozen or so onions to use.  But there were three that started growing, so I’ve planted them.  I’ve also planted two dozen or so new onion sets.  All seem to be growing well.

I’ve also planted green beans that are doing well, and beets which – I think – have just come up.  I also have a little patch of leaf lettuce that have only been up a few days.  The only other food thing I planted in April were parsnips, but they take a long time to come up.

The non-food things I’ve planted are sunflowers – which we just grow to feed birds over the winter – and other flowers.  The sunflower just came up, and the other flowers may have come up, I’m not sure what they look like.   

In March I planted some potatoes, but they haven’t come up yet.  One I think was eaten by a mole or something.  I dug down and didn’t find anything.  I started digging in another, and I found the potato and it was just starting to grow, so I reburied it.  It did freeze a couple times after I planted them, but I figured they would pop out as soon as it got warm.  Hopefully in another week or so they’ll finally sprout, if they haven’t been eaten yet.

All of this is in my raised beds or other beds.  I have one more raised bed that’s almost full, which I’ll plant with carrots.  I haven’t gotten the regular garden worked up yet.  Last fall, I was busy with the raised beds and didn’t get around to cleaning out the garden – all the cages and whatnot – but I did get around to doing that in April.  Now I just need it to not rain for a couple days so I can get it worked up and plant peas, kidney beans, potatoes, and everything else.

I planted some zucchini, cucumber, cantaloupe, and watermelon seeds inside.  The only one up so far is the cantaloupe.  The others were pretty old seeds, so I don’t know if they’ll grow or not.  We’ll have to see.