That was fast!

So I planted the organic cilantro on April 15, right?

Look what I found today!

Sprouting!

Yay!  After taking this picture, I decided I should show what else I have growing at the house.

Basil

That’s our overgrown basil that made it through the winter.

Parsley

Also our half-dead parsley that is slowly coming back to life.

Our new organic curly parsley

You can’t see here, but I think the edges may have gotten a little frost-bitten earlier in the week.

Avocado

This is our avocado plant.  Given where we live, it will never produce fruit, but the hubby really likes planting random seeds.

Mystery

Case in point. K has planted so many different things in this pot, he has no idea what this could be. He’s narrowed it down to quenepas or lemon.  Sigh…

This weekend our plants are in for another shock. It’s gone from 36F degrees a few days ago to 85F degrees tomorrow.  Monday will be the hottest at 87F.  Our plants are so new, we’re hoping they can take the sudden change.  If there were older and had been planted awhile we wouldn’t worry so much. I don’t want my new strawberry plants to die!

First Mosquito Bite of the Season

Hubby has class on Tuesday nights, leaving me pretty free until 8pm-ish.  We spend lots of time together, cuz he’s my best friend, but I sort of look forward to Tuesday nights which give me some alone time.

Today after work I headed to Honest Weight Co-op to buy some fruits and veggies, and some milk.  We have so much food left over from the last few weeks we needed very little from the grocery store.  I bought some asparagus, organic strawberry and Meadowbrook milk (yay glass bottles!) and it would have been a very cheap grocery week indeed if I hadn’t gotten sidetracked by the Fedco seeds.

Oh, who am I kidding?  I went to the co-op to specifically CHECK OUT the Fedco seeds!  And I ended up buying eleventy billion of them.  I am so gosh darn excited though – what do you want me to do?

So, what’d I buy? So glad you asked!

• Sugarsnap peas
• Scarlett Runner Bean
• Provider Bush Green Bean
• Black Valentine Bush Green Bean
• Danvers Carrot
• Golden Chard
• Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce
• Salad Bowl Lettuce
• Long Standing Bloomsdale Spinach
• Caribe Cilantro

Oh man, I went a little crazy on the beans – and I’m not sure why! I should see if I can return some.  Because we still need to get tomatoes, eggplant, and zucchini.

I also got some organic soil to container plant with – and it’s local! From the local dirt farm?  Heh heh.

McEnroe Organic Soil, from Millerton, NY

When I got home with my purchases I wisked everything out to back deck.  I put a load of wash on with my homemade laundry detergent, set water on to boil to eat pasteles later, and then went back outside to plant my organic cilantro.  I’ve been dreaming about organic cilantro a lot lately.  Most of these dreams coincide with organic tomato dreams in which I make the most delicious salsa in the late summer and then can it!  Mmm….

Newly planted cilantro on the left (organic), regular old cilantro on right

We actually have a little bit of regular cilantro left from last year that we kept going on the window sill over the winter, but it’s pretty dead.

It was such a great evening…warm (50s), and I heard the peepers in the aquifer, saw a family of deer stumble through the Great Flats, woodpecker tapping the trees…and some cars in the distance…boo.

The last of the deer family

After the cilantro was done, I pulled out some seeds we saved from last year and started planting those.

Seeds saved from last year

Flower seeds

We got a real kick out of saving the above flower seeds late last fall.  We were in the heat of the election season and I think these were something Alaska related.  They were beautiful flowers, but shallow 🙂  So we named them Alaska Sarah Palins.

So there was my Tuesday night! It really was wonderful and very relaxing.  Until I got my first mosquito bite of the season, dang it! I don’t understand how we can go from snow last week to mosquitoes this week!