May. 29, 2009
Here's How Our Garden Grows
Posted in Gardening
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The garden is coming along. Now is the part of gardening I don't really like- weeding. We have been weeding and mulching the last few weeks. Mark is trying to mulch everything really well this year to cut down on the weeding. Since we don't use weed killers this can be a big job! We used old hay mostly for the mulch. We found out the hard way not to put hay around the melons, squash and cucumbers because those plants like a drier hotter growing climate. Also, the hay acts as a habitat for the cucumber beetle which spreads powdery mildew on the cantaloupe. We are using landscape fabric around these.
We had to replant cantaloupe,cucumbers, and watermelons and some of the corn.
We staked the tomatoes and beans. We have tried different ways to stake the beans and tomatoes. This is the way we like best. It is easy to pick the beans with this set up.
 Here are the beans starting to climb up their stakes  Here are the tomatoes. Some have little green tomatoes. We pinched the blooms off the strawberries. These are the peppers The corn looks kind of scrawny. Mark replanted some of it. |
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