Day 373
May 7, 2011
Today I went to my 2nd Annual Snohomish County Master Gardeners Plant Sale! This year I bought far fewer plants than last year since most of my garden is planted already. I seem to prefer the cold season veges (peas, onions, garlic, shallots, broccoli, radishes, beets, parsnips, carrots, turnips, and potatoes) to the warm season veges. I did buy some lemon cucumber and red cabbage starts today, though. And also a few herbs: lovage, winter savory, lemon balm, garlic chives, and marjoram. Paul bought a raspberry plant to add to our strawberry and blueberry patches.
I’ve really increased my herbs this year. So far I have: two types of regular basil, cinnamon basil (for ice cream), spearmint, lime mint, chocolate mint, Greek oregano, silver-tipped thyme, regular thyme, lemon thyme, chives, garlic chives, curly parsley, tarragon, chervil, lemon balm, lemon verbena, fennel, dill, several types of nasturtium (colorful, edible flowers for salads), scented lemon geranium, and scented ginger geranium.
My two types of potatoes are coming up, and my asparagus roots are starting to poke through! I’ll have three kinds of radishes to eat in the next few weeks, and have about 200 carrots planted and doing well!
Now, my plants just need some consistent sunshine to start taking off!
