garden notes
Jul. 25th, 2005 09:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chhotiiI tend to plant things too close together. This is because when I grew vegetables as a child, I didn't have the presence of mind to start planting until fairly late in the season, and as the season progressed nearly everything got pulled up and fed to my beloved pet guinea pigs, so nothing ever got very big. So when I read things like "sow in rows 3 feet apart" I think you've got to be kidding. Now the garden is too crowded to move around in. Well, now I have a sense for how things grow, I'll be better next year.
Must deal with weeds more proactively. Must learn to mulch. Perhaps, sheets of newspaper (no color printing) covered with grass clippings? Must get the mulch down before the weeds have a chance to grow, i.e., right after planting. At this point it's totally hopeless, I am waving the white flag to the weeds. Although, I'm impressed, the vegetables are managing to out-compete the weeds pretty well AND produce food for me at the same time.
The tomatoes are going to be so productive!!! Only one tomato has ripened so far, but a few cherry tomatoes are really close (possibly ready to pick tomorrow) and there are lots of green tomatoes and lots of flowers. I will have to root around to find the little plastic plant marker to see what variety the second plant from the end inside the fence is. It's growing a phenomenal number of paste tomatoes.
Must deal with weeds more proactively. Must learn to mulch. Perhaps, sheets of newspaper (no color printing) covered with grass clippings? Must get the mulch down before the weeds have a chance to grow, i.e., right after planting. At this point it's totally hopeless, I am waving the white flag to the weeds. Although, I'm impressed, the vegetables are managing to out-compete the weeds pretty well AND produce food for me at the same time.
The tomatoes are going to be so productive!!! Only one tomato has ripened so far, but a few cherry tomatoes are really close (possibly ready to pick tomorrow) and there are lots of green tomatoes and lots of flowers. I will have to root around to find the little plastic plant marker to see what variety the second plant from the end inside the fence is. It's growing a phenomenal number of paste tomatoes.
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Date: 2005-07-26 01:48 am (UTC)Raspberries still going strong here; I am picking 3-4 cups every other day. The fall-bearers have not bloomed yet, which may mean I won't get any from those plants... sigh. But the bounty from the summer bearers has at least 2 more weeks to go.
I have one almost-ripe cherry tomato and lots of green ones. yum...
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Date: 2005-07-26 03:23 am (UTC)Next year you can have Sophia help you plant. That should be really neat.
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Date: 2005-07-26 12:17 pm (UTC)Yea, I see salsa in our future