Putting down some roots!

The past few days have been filled with the next best thing to harvesting...planting. I have planted three separate greenhouse beds with a wide variety of plants. Each beds contain at least 6 or 7 different vegetables or herbs. This produces wide biodiversity, which helps control pest, enhances the soil, and is just plain more fun than linear rows of the same crop. The plants I have planted are; Peas, Beans, Cabbage, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Cilantro, Marigold, a Italian Salad green, and some flowers. As you can tell these are all colder weather crops. Do to the irregular frosts at this high altitude it is necessary to plant these hardier annuals even in the greenhouse. When these are done than the sun lovers, aka, tomatoes, melons, basil, peppers, etc. will go in. 

before planting each bed there was a 'ritual of Jerome's' to be performed. The beds which had a layer of leaves on top were moistened, coffee grounds were then spread, followed by another moistening, than another layer of dried leaves, more moistening, and finally planting. After planting the plants were watered with a mixture of water, fish emultion, and a mycorrhizal fungi especially adapted to bind with the coffee grounds. This last part was a new experiment for Jerome. He usually uses wood chips as a host for the mycorrhizal.