The work season has finally started.
The day went by fast preparing for spring cultivation and getting a few things in the ground.
Newly washed grow boxes
I cleared the greenhouse and finally emptied and washed the last grow boxes. Unfortunately 3 of them were leaking so I’ll have to invest in new ones, which isn’t good as they are rather expensive.
I have begun to consider whether I can cobble something together with rectangular 65-liter tubs. As 3 tubs only cost a little more than a single grow box there will be plenty of money left over for what else to use, especially if I end up with a more robust solution than the polystyrene the bought boxes are made of so I don’t have to replace them so often.
Newly grafted apples planted where they'll live the next year or two.
The ground is still very wet and heavy, so I only put something in two beds today.
The first was one of the small beds which had leeks last year, they were planted quite late so they didn’t get very large but they had still survived the winter, so the remains is in the kitchen where they are waiting for inspiration.
This bed has the newly grafted apple trees.
The second bed had heart cabbage last year, again planted very late so they didn’t get big enough to eat before the winter, this’ll be for Alliaceae this year, so I set a couple of bags of red onion and some garlic I had left hanging outside over the winter. There are still plenty of room to set more onions and leeks so I am considering whether it’s getting to be the time to also sow those.
Back in the apartment several of the tomatoes are big enough to be replanted to pots.