I would like to announce that my gate is finished, hung, and keeping the critters at bay. It is beautiful. It is a double-sided gate, meeting in the middle of the opening. It comes together correctly, and has a slide bolt latch. I carefully slide open the latch, and push on the gates...it opens inward, and voila!!!!!! There are my two tiny rows of greenery. It is a gate that could keep out an armoured tank. I love the gate. The gate posts on each side have a pointy topper to cover the top of the post. It looks like a little castle gate out there. Very cool....best in the neighborhood. Too bad it's out back and no one can see it. I knew it would be fabulous.
I was outside trying to pull weeds on Saturday, and I had to stop after a short while because I couldn't tell the weeds from the food. I can find the bean sprouts, so that's no problem, but there is a row of tiny green stuff coming up in one of the popcorn rows. It is surrounded by grass and weeds, so I cannot determine what's what. That worked out just fine for me, because I still have not become one with the earth, and I really hate pulling weeds. I hate that sweaty sticky feeling...the one where you are so hot and miserable and tired that it feels as though bugs are crawling all over your scalp? You know the one...well, I am ecstatic to have a reason to quit. I will need some new excuses for next year when I have learned to tell the difference between food and weeds.
I transplanted the tomato plants that were in the greenhouse out into the garden. I put the tomato fences around each plant, and now it is starting to look like a real garden.
I noticed in my mounds of squash and pumpkin...lots of green sprouts coming up. This dark, rich, moist mound of dirt that I planted the seeds in, came out of a large planter that was not in use in the back yard. It sat under the bird feeder, and I am pretty sure after looking in the books, that I am sprouting sunflowers in the squash mound. The seeds fell out of the feeder, into that pot, and now I have transplanted them into the garden. Sadly, there are so many of them I am going to have to take them out. I am going to try to replant them around the edge of the garden so it will look like all those perfect gardens in the magazines.
I am not sure how wet to keep the ground, but on the days that it doesn't rain, I have been watering the garden. The salad bowl lettuce is the same size as it was 2 weeks ago. I don't know how big it gets, but maybe I should pull some up and eat it, and see how it tastes. I can always plant more...right? All of the peppers in the greenhouse are sprouting flowers, so I think the peppers will be fine finishing their life out in the greenhouse. I have some new information on composting, but that is for tomorrow.
Until tomorrow,
Karen
I was outside trying to pull weeds on Saturday, and I had to stop after a short while because I couldn't tell the weeds from the food. I can find the bean sprouts, so that's no problem, but there is a row of tiny green stuff coming up in one of the popcorn rows. It is surrounded by grass and weeds, so I cannot determine what's what. That worked out just fine for me, because I still have not become one with the earth, and I really hate pulling weeds. I hate that sweaty sticky feeling...the one where you are so hot and miserable and tired that it feels as though bugs are crawling all over your scalp? You know the one...well, I am ecstatic to have a reason to quit. I will need some new excuses for next year when I have learned to tell the difference between food and weeds.
I transplanted the tomato plants that were in the greenhouse out into the garden. I put the tomato fences around each plant, and now it is starting to look like a real garden.
I noticed in my mounds of squash and pumpkin...lots of green sprouts coming up. This dark, rich, moist mound of dirt that I planted the seeds in, came out of a large planter that was not in use in the back yard. It sat under the bird feeder, and I am pretty sure after looking in the books, that I am sprouting sunflowers in the squash mound. The seeds fell out of the feeder, into that pot, and now I have transplanted them into the garden. Sadly, there are so many of them I am going to have to take them out. I am going to try to replant them around the edge of the garden so it will look like all those perfect gardens in the magazines.
I am not sure how wet to keep the ground, but on the days that it doesn't rain, I have been watering the garden. The salad bowl lettuce is the same size as it was 2 weeks ago. I don't know how big it gets, but maybe I should pull some up and eat it, and see how it tastes. I can always plant more...right? All of the peppers in the greenhouse are sprouting flowers, so I think the peppers will be fine finishing their life out in the greenhouse. I have some new information on composting, but that is for tomorrow.
Until tomorrow,
Karen
Who needs a mall when one has a garden?!
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