For the past couple of days I have been focusing on getting all my transplants into the garden including peppers, eggplants, cucumbers, pickle cucumbers, and the last of my honeydew melons. I also needed to plant at least one row of carrot seeds. (more…)
Today was a good day to do another harvest of my iceberg lettuce. Many of the lower leaves have reached the peak of how big they were going to get and this is when I like to pick them. I picked several leaves and most of them were very large which I am happy about.
Today made a perfect day to pick them due to the rain they received early this morning. I like to pick them after a rain because this will help the plant grow more leaves after I pick the ones that are ready right now. (more…)
Now that the entire garden has been tilled I wanted to get as much into the ground as possible. This includes seeds such as corn and beans that need to be planted before June. I also got most of my flowers into the ground which is another important element of my garden.
I still have plants that I have not had the chance to place in the garden, but most of these are just transplants of fruits and vegetables. I will hope to finish them sometime this week. (more…)
It has been a while since my last post, but now that the season is pretty much over there is not much to write about. Luckily I grew a fall crop and my broccoli is starting to come through and I have been harvesting them since the beginning of October.
I also decided that it was time to begin cleaning up the garden. This means removing my pole bean trellis, digging up roots such as my sunflowers, peppers, eggplants, and many others. I will probably rake up the loose debris in the garden as well so that I don’t have to do much when the season starts again next year. (more…)
This week I decided to add the ropes for my bean trellis and to finish them as quickly as possible. Many of my bean plants had started grabbing on to each other and it became a pain to break them apart without damaging the vine. They are very fragile and can easily break if handled incorrectly.
Having them climb up ropes has proved to be successful in the past years and is a great way to separate the plants and vines. The ropes are also strong enough to support the amount of beans that could appear especially if you have a good harvest like I did last year. (more…)
Now that it is the middle of May and the weather is averaging in the high 60’s to low 70’s it is time to start transplanting. I have only done my tomatoes so far and have dug holes for all of the plants that I have growing outside.
I transplanted eight tomatoes today and will do the rest of them over the weekend. I wanted to place the ones that were starting to get root bound into the soil first before they start to get ill and dry out too fast in the hot sun. (more…)
Setting up the actual poles for my beans was done way in the beginning right after I tilled the garden. I don’t finish the setup until the beans start growing the runners that they will use to grab on and climb up the poles. Instead of using the poles I like to add rope which they will use for support.
This is a little bit different from what many others will tell you to setup a support structure for pole beans. This is just the way I do it and it seems to work for me just fine. It is basically a string type trellis that I build to hold the weight of my beans. Take a look at what it looks like when it is completed. (more…)
