[Sca-cooks] Spring plantings

[Elaine Koogler]

I haven't really planted much at all...but still have hopes that I'll be
able to get some herbs in.  With all of the truck farmers in the area, it's
actually easier and quite reasonable to buy fruit and veggies from them...we
get them the same day they're picked, and they are local.  Also, we're
trying to support local farmers as they get out of farming tobacco!!!  What
I have planted is 3 paulownia trees.  Not food, I know, but very ornamental,
once they get a little larger.

Funny thing...they are considered to be weeds, almost, here...they grow
almost everywhere...except in my yard!  For a number of years, I've tried to
figure out how to get a couple (they cant on my name...the Japanese word for
paulownia is "kiri"), and the closest I came to now was when the Md. Dept of
Agriculture offered to sell me 1000!  Understandable as it is also a great
money crop.  What I finally wound up doing was ordering them from
California!!!  But we have them now, and they're doing great!

Kiri
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karen O" <kareno at lewistown.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 6:26 PM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Spring plantings


>
> > It's High Spring and I haven't seen much on the list of who's planting
> what.
> > Akim
>
>     Not here in Central Montana. <big sad sigh> There has been "snow
> showers" the majority of the day, and Spring crops up on the days I can't
> get outside coz of "other things."
>
>     Anyway,  I'm waiting to plant Asparagus in the herbal bed extension,
and
> I have Rhubarb to plant next to the old plant that came with the house.
For
> whomever had the question: the directions say to plant in well-drained
soil
> in the sun.  Set the crowns just below ground level.  Fertilize liberally
> and keep the soil moist & free of weeds.  Remove the flower spikes as they
> appear.   The spacing should be 3 - ft apart.   You don't harvest the
first
> year, and little the second.  After that, the stems should be plentiful,
and
> you can harvest throughout the late spring/eary summer.    I have peonies
> waiting to go in the front yard too.
>
>     Caointiarn  {who may get to plant on Mothers Day}
>
>
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