I thinned the radishes!

It was potato day at last. We planted three kinds - German Butterball, Red Gold and Sangre. I put three seed potatoes in each of three of our black culvert planters, and covered them with a couple of inches of loamy soil. Probably will do two more potato planters later this week; we have one more variety.

Yesterday we were blessed with 1/4 inch of rain but today he sun came out and it was even a little bit warm. Sometimes our gray, gloomy skies lull us into thinking that we don't need to water, but at this stage our seeds and seedlings need to stay moist. We now have a rain gauge in our back yard so that we can check to see how much rain actually hits the ground - time to start thinking like farmers. Unfortunately, they haven't turned on the water at the P-Patch yet, so we have to haul it from home or drag buckets down to the pond below the P-Patch. Today we did both.

The other gardeners are starting to show up now (does anyone think we jumped the gun?) and we met two more of them this afternoon.

The radishes and the arugula actually needed to be thinned already. That was a little scary, but I bravely pulled. I tried transplanting some of the radishes; we'll see if that works. The arugula I pulled can just be thrown into tonight's salad - itty, bitty baby greens.