Why do I feel so far behind?!
Yesterday I finished putting in my seeds for cucumbers, potatoes (really late there) and a new corn called ‘glass gem’ yesterday. Then I remind myself it just hailed last week and snowed the week before so perhaps I’m more on schedule than I think this year. All the crops will get row cover over them to protect them from birds eating the seedlings. Out of sight, out of mind.
Today I put in 8 pepper and 8 eggplant transplants and have 8 more of each to plant tomorrow plus squash seeds and Tarabais bean seeds to plant by the weekend.
Sounds easy but after I lightly turn the soil in the bed, add amendments in each hole, put the plant in, make a well around each plant to hold the water around the plant, connect a drip line and wrap it around each plant, put straw around each well and make cages to protect them and lastly put row cover over the cages which I secured using rocks so they won’t blow off. Phew—it all takes time. I get tired just thinking about it!
I am still germinating the gourds under the lights in the house which as soon as they come up and grow their first true leaves I will put out. Oh yea and the beets and carrots have to still go in. Sigh—so much to do! And did I mention I put in my one purple tomatillo plant? Blah. Blah. Blah.
Tell me more about that little arch of fencing you put in that photo.
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It’s just wire fencing (2″ x 4″ openings) that I ran straight up the sides and then over the top making an arch.
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It may be blah, blah. blah, but you should have a great harvest, a yummy summer and winter.
And a lot more work later!
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Planting the garden in spring and harvesting are the hardest. The stuff in the middle of the season is easy. I hope I do have a great harvest this year too. Good seeing you at the potluck!
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yummy, yummy!
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Good luck 🙂
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