6-7-12
ok enough already with the rabbits who have the munchies. They ate ALL of my pole beans...all of them :( Soooo today I went out and bought some chicken wire to keep them out. Sheesh
6-8-12
Yesterday I went to Menards and bought some chicken wire to put around the garden, then proceeded to put it up, it took some work but it's finished. I bought 4' fencing so that I could bend about 18" of it at the bottom to help keep rabbits from digging underneath the fence.
Today I replanted the three 10 foot rows of pole beans. The first time around I had kentucky wonder beans,which I had last year, both green and yellow. This time I have blue lake, which is what the local greenhouse had on hand. This might be a good thing, this way I can decide which I like better.
Both varieties are OP so I can save the seed of either.
I had to replant squash. It's getting almost too late to be doing that. Squash needs a long season. The birds keep pecking it out of the ground in search of worms in the wet dirt. I water with a soaker hose so the wet dirt is always where the seeds and plants are. Note; put up some bird netting to keep them out of the squash seeds :) Hmmm maybe it is the rabbits, the squash is not inside the fence.
Today I also thinned out the peas I planted too thickly. They would have been very overcrowded.
A couple of days ago I picked my first two cherry tomatoes. Yesterday I ate one and today I ate the other one :) Today I also picked 4 more of them but they won't be ready to eat for a few days yet. Soon there will be handsful every few days for the rest of the summer, happy happy :)
The roma tomatoes are doing quite well, they are growing nicely and there are flowers all over them.
I can't get carrots to grow. There are only 20 of them out there now, there should be hundreds. But I will take what I can get, I love love carrots.
The rhubarb is doing nicely even if only 2 of the original 4 lived. To be fair, one was DOA when I opened the package to plant them. They will fill in the area where I planted in a couple of years.
The strawberry plants seem to have stalled, maybe I should fertilize them a little. I'll google it to find out what to do. Ok, I googled it....too late this year to fertilize them. It needs to be done before new growth in the spring.
Only one sweet potato plant has been lost so far, out of 10 that is ok with me as long as no more of them die. That doesn't seem likely. The rest of them look very healthy and are showing good growth.
I have been getting enough spinach and chard for a nice addition to my meals every few days, and only from one spinach plant and 2 chard plants. I planted some more spinach a few days ago but I will have to go without it for a few weeks. The plant I am picking now is giving smaller and smaller leaves. Pretty soon it will be flowering.
