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Monday, April 21st, 2008

Posted by Craig Sailor @ 11:14:20 am

Like most of you I watched with amazement Saturday morning as snow fell in Tacoma and many other Puget Sound areas.

I've had it with this weather. By sheer force of will I tried to wish away the cold by sowing the first seeds of my garden yesterday.

OK, I didn't go crazy and start planting corn and sunflowers. But I did sow onions, lettuce, carrots and raddichio. I admit I had pangs of nervousness this morning but then I remembered: they're just seeds. And by the time the really warm weather hits later in the week they should be starting to stir.

I've added some decomposted manure and other organic amendments to my raised beds and mixed up the old soil thoroughly. I haven't paid any attention to crop rotation or what could be living in the soil so it'll be a little bit of an experiment.

The raised bed has already attracted one admirer: this robin was busy looking for worms this morning.

It just better stay away from my seeds.

Categories: Soil building, Organic gardening, Vegetables

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Craig Sailor is the Arts & Entertainment editor at The News Tribune. Last year he planted his first vegetable garden. Focusing on unusual varieties, “Freak of Nature” returns for 2008 with a new crop of uncommon vegetables and flowers. This year he’ll try yin yang beans, giant pumpkins, blue poppies and mutant sunflowers. He gardens at his North End Tacoma home and sneaks seeds in to his mother’s garden at Willapa Bay when she’s not looking. .

Sue Kidd is the Lifestyle Editor at The News Tribune. She is a devoted vegetable gardener, but otherwise a tragic mess at growing just about anything else. Her current obsessions are growing tomatoes on a trellis and trying to convince all her South Hill neighbors to ditch the chemicals and go green in the garden (they are very suspicious of her). She’ll blog about garden gadgets, the latest garden trends and her current garden disasters. She is also the ringleader for the Home&Garden section, so e-mail her with thoughts/rants/questions/bizarre observations. sue.kidd@thenewstribune.com. Use it.

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