to-do list - spring 2012

Hey hey! It's spring again! Time to do stuff:

• prune back yard chamisa 3/26
• prune front yard chamisas 4/1
• deadhead back yard perennials 5/6
• deadhead front yard perennials 4/1
• prune sage 3/26
• get some mushroom compost 3/31 + add to raised bed 4/1 + south-facing bed 5/6
• run out south-side rain barrel(s) to the apricot tree 3/31
• run out back rain barrel to south-facing bed 5/6
• un-upend front rain barrel 3/27
• set up soaker hoses + sprinklers 4/1
• buy strawbale for mulch 3/31
• hit backyard bindweed with Roundup 4/6
• buy 3/31 + sow grass seed
• buy 3/31 + plant chives 4/1
• buy 3/31 + plant thyme 4/1
• buy 4/30 + plant basil 5/6
• buy + plant dill
• buy 4/30 + plant flowers for front container 5/6
• buy more tomato cages 3/26
• buy 4/28 + plant tomatoes 5/6
  (2@ Robeson, 2@ Sungold from the Eulalio's Farm ladies at the Garden Fair)

2012 Garden Fair

This year's Santa Fe Master Gardeners Garden Fair is on Saturday April 28. Who's going?

last of the tomatoes

weekend update: last tomatoes

It's supposed to maybe snow (!!!) next week, so I tackled shutting down the tomatoes Saturday.

The Sungolds were, again, just monstrous. I ended up cutting the plants apart into manageable sections, just to make composting easier and also to make sure I didn't miss any tomatoes.



There were enough ripe ones to make a small tomato salad for me and Bram on Saturday, and to top two pizzas for dinner with Jim, Stacy, and Bernice on Sunday. I separated the rest into three groups: mostly yellow/will ripen soon; yellowy-green/should ripen in a while; hard, white-green/probably won't ripen. I'm thinking of maybe making the dilled green tomatoes recipe referenced recently over at You Grow Girl.

In dismembering the behemoth Sungold, I discovered a few green Robesons, and one red one in the back that had all but rotted on the vine (sob!) I think the plan for next year will be to relegate one Sungold (or maybe two?) out to the south-facing side bed, and put two Robesons in the raised bed.