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Hi Ya'll, Well we've gotten a good start on the garden this year. Luckily the local Ag Center has free compost and we've gotten several loads of this to add to the garden this year. As usual we are using the wide rows, four feet wide by 75' long, and doing intensive planting. Bed 1 has peas planted all along the fence line and six parsley plants. After our last frost date tomatoes will go there, pole beans will follow the peas, along with basil interplanted at the edges of the bed. Bed 2 is brocolli, cauliflower, and cabbage with onions interplanted. Bed 3 is planted in beets, carrots, spinach, and radishes with three cilantro plants on the end. Bed 4 will have 6" woven wire cattle fencing stretched down the middle for trellising more tomato plants. These tomatoes will have peppers and eggplant interplanted at the edges of the beds. Bed 5 will be bush green beans. Along the back side of the garden peas have also been planted. 50 purple passion asparagus plants were ordered from Pine Tree Seeds that will go along the back fence. That's as far as I've gotten with the inside of the garden planning. Outside the garden we are going to put in twelve new four feet wide by 25' long beds with three foot paths in-between. Four patches of corn, two of pumpkins, zipper peas, soybeans, peanuts, summer squash, wintersquash, and melons will fill those twelve beds. Two new thornless blackberries, and two raspberries have been added. Two red climbing roses have been planted on the outside of the trellis arch that gates the front of the garden. Two pears, Keiffer and Moonglow, have been added to our small orchard. Two standard apples, Anna and Dorsett, are being planted between the chicken coop and the goat pasture, thirty feet apart. New outdoor projects I hope to start this year are a grape trellis, perrenial herb garden box, and a bee hive. The bee hive will help with polination and fruit set and will provide our family with honey. Inside we are getting a new metal shelving unit and adding two shelves of growing lights for starting my seeds. I've already started 36 new asparagus plants (UC-72). Still need to start the eggplant, peppers, tomatoes and herbs. The boys have been busy hauling straw and compost into the garden. Their getting lots of excersize :) Sam has been real good about digging all those large holes for the new fruit plants and fruit trees to go in. Hope you all have very productive gardens this year! Blessings, Roni |
