Friday, May 17, 2013. Mixed clouds and sun. High temp: 81 degrees F; low temp: 62 degrees F.
It was all hard labor all day today—water abatement landscaping followed by serious weeding. It looks like serious rain right now, but I fear it is skirting, circling, flirting north of us for now. What I wouldn’t give for another half-inch of rain tonight…
The rest of seedling onions grown in newspaper pots were finally planted. We had done two test rows—one with the entire newspaper pot/wrapping removed, and one with just the bottom of the newspaper pot removed—a week ago, and honestly, both rows have done equally well. As it is much easier to just tear away the bottom of the pots, I planted all the rest that way and surrounded the sprouts with shredded paper. In my work, I have plenty of documents to shred, so I’ve been saving up all winter. This soil covering definitely does not look as pastoral as straw, but really, so what…. It works just as well to keep weeds down and moisture in.












