If there is one thing Lucy the puggle princess loves to do, it’s dig. So whenever I need my garden beds arated, I have her hop in and go wild. She loves it.
Each spring I like to work last years soil from my pots and stock tanks into my garden beds and amend the soil with some fresh Tagro. But since the Tagro won’t be delivered for a few more weeks, I decided to go ahead and push some of the soil in my garden beds forward so I could go ahead and plant a row of seeds now.
Worms hard at work.
I planted a row of French Breakfast radishes in each of my garden boxes.
With Lucy close behind inspecting my handiwork.
Do you have a favorite variety of radishes that you like to grow?
Early March. It’s torture. I want to get my beds planted NOW. But I know I can’t. And let me tell you Bob, it takes willpower. Lot’s and lot’s of willpower. 😉
Have a great day everyone,
~Mavis and Lucy
Lisa Millar says
I love your sidekick!!
Sue says
I love Lucy…..that face….oh!
Lace Faerie says
Fun to have an adorable, hard working assistant! Do you have one of those neat-o dog washing stations in your mud room? She must get muddy up to her hips and shoulders?! My sibling and I grew up with 72 acres to explore that included a huge pond. More than once we were made to stand in the yard to be hosed off before Mama let us back into the house! Do kids these days know this glorious fun?
mandy says
French Breakfast are my favorite also. I’m having a problem at the moment with slugs. They’re eating almost everything. I had a colander full of sprouted sugar snaps and maybe 8 are struggling to grow. I find the pea seeds under the ground with a tiny bit of green, they just keep eating them down. They’re getting my radishes also. And don’t even ask about the lettuces. I’ve been hunting for them and smashing them, but I’m not sure that’s enough. Do you have any suggestions? Maybe I should have saved this for an ask Mavis session? Any suggestions you may have would be appreciated. I need my French Breakfasts 🙂
Mavis Butterfield says
I sprinkle a little Sluggo in the vegetable garden about once a month and that seems to keep them at bay.
mandy says
Thank you Mavis, I’m going to get some of that.
Erin says
I also have a huge problem with slugs. I have found that what they love so much is wood. A nice board lying on the ground is so dark and moist. So I lay those around my garden, and lift them up each morning and crush the ten or more slugs under each board. Acutally, I carry around a pair of scissors and snip them in half (my shoes get pretty slippery with so much slug guts on them).
I also find after a nice warm summer rain, or on an especially dewy morning, the slugs all sit on the top of the blades of grass on my lawn, and out I go with my scissors. Snip, snip, snip. I can mow down close to a hundred in a morning. So satisfying!
Susan from Dallas says
I started planting in the garden and putting out my little seedlings. Boy, do I have the utmost respect for you and your gardening abilities. Keeping those little guys alive (much less thriving) is not easy!!!
BTW, you both have very cute personalities!!!
Erin says
My all time favourite radish is of course French Breakfast. Every once in a while one of them is purple, and oh boy, are those purple ones hot! My garden helper, Tucker the beagle, is also a huge fan of radishes. Last summer when he was let out for his morning business, he ate an entire 8-foot row of radishes straight from the ground. That pooch loves his veggies.
This year we are trying a few different varieties of radish: easter egg, French breakfast, candela di fuoco, malaga, zlata, alpine daikon, and rat’s tail. Have you ever tried growing the seed pod radishes or had any experience with them?