Raised beds raised beds raised beds raised beds!
After a rainy Saturday, it was nice enough to get busy down in the clay today. Working up last year's potato patch yielded a nice hod-full of previously-missed, holdover potatoes. I mixed a slurry of fava beans and Rhizobium inoculant, and planted the whole bed to favas.
This year I am trying a medium-sized, purple variety from Territorial Seed Company called Negreta. After planting the whole bed thickly, I had some beans left over so I rinsed off the inoculant and cooked up a nice ful medames. Ah the single life! Standing over the stove, eating mashed beans, and loving it.
You may or may not know that I have been struggling with favas since I moved here. So far, it has seemed that the spring season that favas like is just too short. When the proper, summer, tomato-growing weather hits, bugs and blights move in and make the favas miserable. This is the first time I am using Rhizobium in this garden, though, so maybe they will have leg up this year.
Seeded the tomatoes to soil blocks on the heat mat and moved the peppers up to 4" pots this past week.
MRD Port Authorities beat the Rhode Island Riveters in the first bout of the '08 season last night.
