My schedule for planting this season has me planting something every week from the last week of March through the middle of July.  I have to stop before the 15th of July because I will  be leaving for China for 2 1/2 weeks and I’m not sure my husband will have time to harvest food, plant food, work and take care of our house and son.  I’ll set him up with plenty of fresh food and the boys can have at it.

The reason I have something scheduled to be planted every week is that I want to have constant food.  Items like lettuce and arugula don’t keep so I’m spacing out the plantings to have a continuous supply.  I intend to plant lettuce and beets every two weeks and beans and carrots every two weeks.  The theory is that I will be able to harvest a row and replant the next week.  Of course this is only for the quickly growing items such as lettuce.  I also prefer my spring beets small for salads and then I let the summer beets go for storage.  Same with carrots.

I also intend to keep a record of what is planted each week and then update with germination rates and harvest dates.  Unfortunately, I doesn’t look like anything will be planted this weekend since I happen to be suffering from a freak roller skating case of owwee.

I did get a few things thrown into the ground last Saturday.

Arugula

Carrots – Chantenay Royal & Amsterdam Minicor

Beets – Choigga (my favorites), Bull’s Blood, Ruby Queen & Early Blood Turnip

Spinach – Giant Thick & Bloomsdale Savoy

Lettuce – Ruby, Kagraner Summer, Tango, Summer Bibb, Yugoslavian Red Butterhead, Buttercrunch, Flame & Salad Bowl (my favorite)

I still do not have peas planted.  I know that is terrible, but my Tagro pile is a long ways away from my pea bed and I simply cannot push the wheelbarrow that far.  Hey, I can’t even bend over to tie my shoes.  Cut me some slack.