Garden

[johnridley]

Finally planted the garden today. There are cucumbers (straight-eights) and sugar snaps on the climbing fence, sweet corn (one row, I'm dropping in another tomorrow), peppers, watermelon and cantelope [edit: also some sunflowers]. That looked like a lot of space until I started planting in it. The strawberries we're nipping the flowers from, giving them another year to get established before taking any berries. I have a freshly tilled stripe of land next to them that we'll be moving daughter plants into in a few weeks, then next year we'll start harvesting from the original row, then we should be into a regular rotation (perhaps a 3 row rotation, we'll have to see how these plants produce in our soil and weather).

Comments

[jennlk]

I usually buy and plant the tomatoes, which might be why you've never noticed before. Well, that, and last year was the first year we'd not gotten most of our tomatoes from Dad -- he always reminded me to plant the tomatoes deep.