January Plantings

On January 21 I planted my first round of crops. I put in spinach, mesclun greens, buttercrunch lettuce, red onion slips, potatoes, strawberries, and carrots, laid out like this:


Everything was pretty basic, but the potatoes were somewhat difficult. As you can see below, I had to dig out the square, then put 4 potatoes at the bottom of the square, then cover them slightly with some dirt. As they sprout and send up runners, I have to keep sprinkling dirt over the new greens. At any rate this is kind of a pain in the ass. Given that potatoes are pretty inexpensive I don't know if I will be doing them next year.


We'll see how these come up, but I feel fairly confident (I don't think I'll end up with a situation quite like these guys, but soon)...

Update- I have some pictures from earlier today. These are the strawberries and the onions, both are doing great. I don't know about the strawberries because each plant has 3 stalks coming off of the main trunk or root. Mel says its 4 strawberries to a square foot, so I dont know if these count as one or each plant needs to be trimmed down to only 1 stalk.

Another picture, and the spinach has just started to come up.