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Apr. 29, 2009
More on How It's Growing...
This is for my parents (I promised my mom some updated photos):
The garden went from this....
To this....(wow is spring pretty)
 This is my overgrown garden. I have sugar snap peas and radishes along the back. Next forward, a long row of turnips, then a row of kale and inside the cover 4 brussels sprout plants. Along the front, a row of sweet onions and a row of garlic. On the left side, two rows of carrots surrounding my patch of mesclun lettuce. There is also a row of beets. On the right side, a patch of carrots, buttercrunch lettuces (which I have chosen to treat like the mesclun lettuce and continue clipping the leaves), and a row of shallots. Do you think I over planted? Well, so far, so good.
This is the buttercrunch patch. You can see the swirls of the lettuces starting to make heads. I just keep cutting leaves. They might start fitting better that way.
 This is my bean and corn patch. I have a row of bush green beans and then a row of corn, a row of wax beans and then another row of corn (peaches and cream variety). I left the rest open to succession planting of beans and corn. I am hoping that by the time I make it to the end of the bed, I can start over with something else on the other end. There are assorted tarragons and sunflower seeds dispersed along the sides.
About 2 months ago, I left several packets of seeds out in the rain. They were brand new packs of oakleaf lettuce. With the seeds wet, it was the choice between throwing them or sowing them so...I sowed! It is now growing up as ground cover under my cauliflower and cabbages! I will probably treat it the same way as my mesclun and buttercrunch. I think we should be set for lettuce this summer!
I have aphids on my peas! Who ever heard of that?! We also have them on mint (you know, the plant that is suppose to repel aphids?). After researching how to rid myself of them, everything has said that nature will balance them out and just to do no more than spray them off with quick bursts of water. Here are my guys working on that. Funny, that doesn't look like a quick burst as much as a gentle mist...
Rhubarb...I am beyond excited!
So, I have shared with you way more than you ever cared to know about my garden! You were warned! |
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May. 8, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Question about lettuce, though! I don't have the packet anymore to know what type we're growing. Don't know if it matters. BUT, explain 'clipping'. Can I just clip off what we want to eat, and not wait on the heads to form? Will it just continue to grow? Hmmm.... wish you were still here- to serve as my walking, talking encyclopedia!!!
Miss you!
Dana