We’ve been really busy lately trying to get the garden functioning. We decided that we really don’t have the money this year to completely convert from the traditional gardening method to the new square foot gardening one. So maybe more next year…
I’ve done so much in the garden the last few days that I can’t even remember ALL that I did nor the order in which I did it, but here is a sum-up:
~ dug up tomatoes that I planted from seed
~re-tilled the weed infested garden so that we can start from square one. (When Eric originally tilled up the garden he thought it was stupid of me to want to rake up the weeds. I did it his way, tried weeding for one week and then decided to tear almost everything out and start over.)
~ re-planted the tomatoes, plus added some from Lowe’s. (rip-off)
~ planted all of the beans, bush and pole. I put the bush beans in sq.ft. garden boxes and the pole beans in my front yard so that the deer will be uncomfortable with the thought of having to go into our front yard to eat them.
~weeded all of the sq. ft. garden boxes.
~thinned out the lettuce box. Lettuce is growing like crazy.
~gave up on the spinach and beets…tore them out. (Radishes too, but that’s because the weather is too warm now for them.)
~planted onions in place of the spinach and eggplant in place of the beets and radishes.
~ put up bamboo poles for my cucumbers and gherkins and planted those. These are in my traditional portion of garden this year.
~put together a box for the melon. We made this one 4 x 8.
Still to do within the next few days:
~ make a bottom for my melon box.
~ plant the melons
~ plant herbs SOMEWHERE….haven’t decided what to do with those yet. Some will go in the traditional garden.
In the next month:
~ harvest the garlic
~ braid it and hang it to dry
~ till the garlic bed
~ plant the pumpkins and winter squash
So this is the busy time of the year. I’m glad that I don’t plan for school until August!
