And For Our Next Song... GARDENING!
May. 30th, 2017 08:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aldersprigThis weekend, we worked on the garden beds!
We moved something like 6 square feet of walking onions from various garden beds into the hedgerow, where we hope they will fight it out with the goldenrod and emerge victorious.
We then started to repair the bed most of those onions had been living in, noticed that we had two 3-½” bolts instead of the 4” we needed, and were about to go out to Lowes and then dinner…
...when we remembered that it was graduation weekend for the largest college in the area.
So we went for bolts the next day, bolted that bed back together, amended and turned over the soil, and planted asparagus roots and strawberries. This is now a perennial bed for something actually intentional, as opposed to a perennial-onion bed.
We had a little time left, so we turned over another bed, planted the cabbage starts, and planted two milkweed (fancy milkweed) and two fancy day lily starts.
So our garden so far:
[cabbage] [kale, needs work ] [sweet potatoes] [asparagus/strawberries]
[tomatoes][peppers, eggplant]][~needs work~ [ ~needs planting~]
And then, off to the left, a wide hilly section that has held/will hold various squash, and on the patio, a whole range of pots holding herbs, tomato, and peppers.
And so far we’ve only lost one pepper plant to the rabbits and, darn it, 1 pack of squash plants to the cat.
How was your (long, in the US) weekend?
We moved something like 6 square feet of walking onions from various garden beds into the hedgerow, where we hope they will fight it out with the goldenrod and emerge victorious.
We then started to repair the bed most of those onions had been living in, noticed that we had two 3-½” bolts instead of the 4” we needed, and were about to go out to Lowes and then dinner…
...when we remembered that it was graduation weekend for the largest college in the area.
So we went for bolts the next day, bolted that bed back together, amended and turned over the soil, and planted asparagus roots and strawberries. This is now a perennial bed for something actually intentional, as opposed to a perennial-onion bed.
We had a little time left, so we turned over another bed, planted the cabbage starts, and planted two milkweed (fancy milkweed) and two fancy day lily starts.
So our garden so far:
[cabbage] [kale, needs work ] [sweet potatoes] [asparagus/strawberries]
[tomatoes][peppers, eggplant]][~needs work~ [ ~needs planting~]
And then, off to the left, a wide hilly section that has held/will hold various squash, and on the patio, a whole range of pots holding herbs, tomato, and peppers.
And so far we’ve only lost one pepper plant to the rabbits and, darn it, 1 pack of squash plants to the cat.
How was your (long, in the US) weekend?
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Date: 2017-05-30 12:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-05-30 12:33 pm (UTC)We missed that part of Mem. Day weekend, but I’m sure they’ll be more.
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Date: 2017-05-31 08:07 am (UTC)Yay, garden!
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Date: 2017-05-31 10:27 am (UTC)Oli eats grass; Theo eats indoor plants.
Merit knows she’s a carnivore.