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Planning Garden 2012

  • Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:00 am
This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Garden 2012

No, you haven’t lost your mind. Our family is down to one computer, and I was hoping to have mine fixed by now. Unfortunately, laptops are not too fond of mac & beef, so repair has been agonizingly slow. And when I only have a few minutes in an uncomfy chair right before bedtime, expounding upon the subject at hand is easily delayed/dismissed. I’m backdating the entries for the days they *should* have been published. Thanks for joining my time-travel team <3

I’m making a list of all the things I want to plant this year. And researching methods of automatic watering so the whole thing won’t get krispy before the end of the season.

Oh wait. I can’t do anything expensive or permanent1. Crap. RETHINK!!!

And also? FOCUS!!! The list!!!

Carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes (mostly paste), beans (glorious beans), lettuces (Earthbox #1), garlic, corn, watermelon, canteloupe, beets, potatoes, radish, cilantro (maybe?), sugarsnaps, onions, and honestly. Who knows what else will tickle my fancy between now and then?

Resolved: container gardening is fun, but not all that successful for me. I’ll be turning the earthboxes into herb boxes and I’m not sure WHAT I’ll do with all the buckets and bins.

  1. Beltway coming through toward the end of the year. Hopefully at the end of growing season [↩]

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Garden update

  • Posted on June 28, 2010 at 11:43 pm

Basil

As you walk in/out of my home, these lovelies call for attention. They’re the sole survivors of the “herb garden” kit the kids picked out. And attend to them I will! (with tomatoes from the garden and fresh mozz and a wee smidge of olive oil). I need to thin them out and move them….SOMEwhere.

The hose coming out of the container is my own piece of redneck ingenuity – that’s the drain siphon. I just *knew* that cast iron monster would make an ideal pot, and it is quite nice…except for the distinct lack of drainage holes.

Canteloupes in a bucket

This is my first experience with canteloupes in a bucket. I need to trellis it, now that the vines are actually trying to escape the container.

WatermelonBucket

Second verse, similar to the first. There are five watermelon plants in this container – and yes, I already know that’s WAY too many. See also: inexperienced but learning. And yes, more trellises to buy.

Strawberries_container

Our two strawberry plants. Unfortunately they’re eye candy – I’ve not been able to harvest one berry from them yet. (And yes, I know there’s one berry there. ONE!!!)

Twofer_Tomato

Cherry and pear tomatoes in an earthbox. We’re not TOTALLY frugal frannies around here. (Mama bought the earthboxes a year or three ago.) I love how well those plants snuggle together and work to produce…

PearMaters

Hello, darlin’. Wanna come to dinner? I’ll introduce you to my friends.

Cinderblock Garden

Hello? Gardener’s Anonymous? What’s the cure for crowded bed syndrome? Define crowded bed for you? Okay…I have 18 roma tomato plants, an entire packet of radish seeds that got dumped in one corner, three squash, one early girl tomato in the other corner….and the cuke that took over the world.

See also: trellis needed.

Cucumber

Cuke on a plank

I’ve got a bottle of vinegar just waitin’.

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