A Two Day Summary (with Pictures!)
May. 28th, 2010 05:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluesgardenI... don't actually know where to start. Um, let's start with the tomatoes as yesterday was re-planting day. Ten (uh, I think) from the original planting were left in place, four were rescued from the compost pile, another 25 plants came from The Anderson's, and D brought home eleven. You may notice that those numbers add up to more than 40. I ended up commandeering the row that had been designated for peppers and turned it into an additional row for tomatoes so I now have 50 tomato plants. Oops?
D helped and it went speedily as he loosened the soil and mixed in manure for me. Today he went a little roto-tiller happy (I needed one row tilled for the peppers - one - and somehow most of the garden ended up turned over) and that led to carting out more buckets of rocks, most of which were the size of my fist if not larger. This evening he was finally able to bring me the mulch though and covered 3/4 of the tomato area with it, so I'm not complaining. We'll be covering a good bit more area tomorrow.
The list of tomato cultivars actually planted now that the dust of various circumstances has settled is as follows:
Black Krim - 13 (a couple are part of the initial planting, the rest are purchased)
Black Plum - 3 (initial planting)
Tommy Toe - 1 (initial planting)
Country Taste - 2 (purchased)
Cherokee Purple - 2 (purchased)
Celebrity - 3 (purchased)
Opalka - 2 (initial)
Sweet 100 - 2 (one of the homeless plants)
Green Zebra - 2 (purchased)
Speckled Roman - 1 (initial)
Roma - 10 (a mix of homeless plants and purchased)
Nyagous - 3 (initial)
Purple Russian - 4 (from the compost pile - I think they're PR, if not then they're Speckled Roman)
Red Calabash - 2 (both part of the homeless plants)
Today I planted peppers, which were squeezed between the northernmost block of corn and the onions/leeks. I hadn't used the entire corn block and there's plenty of room to the next corn block so that it won't shade out the peppers. If the peppers shadow the onions/leeks a bit, those plants won't mind, so it should all be fine and dandy. The totals there are:
Dancing Spirits - 3
Mulato Isleno - 2
Peguis - 4
Ancho Magnifico - 4
California Wonder 300 - 6 (with 3 extra plants still in the greenhouse)
I also planted the aforementioned onions today (leeks were the day before yesterday) and the 32 daisies. I'd originally planned for the leeks and bunching onions to be in one row, and the storage onions in another, but they ended up all fitting in one row (there's 36 leeks and just shy of 100 onions total - planting them took a while). The daisies (Sky & Ice and Ballade Mix) went in on the edge of the garden just north of the peas. It was random - D had tilled it and they needed to be planted, so there they went. Tomorrow I need to do something with the 9 impatiens plants and the 2 sunflowers. Oh, and the herbs. And the beets.
Taking pictures of the entire garden is going to be a challenge this year. This is the best angle and it's just going to be a sea of green.
Potential
This is one from the initial planting that's bound and determined to make its mark on the world - it's in flower.
Why, yes, they could all look like this right now. *sigh* On the other hand, I found out today that D's grandmother apparently already has a tomato plant at her house so this one is MINE, ALL MINE! Bwahahaha! So I officially have 51, but this is my only Sweet Million, which are my favorite cherry tomato.
The impatiens are... well, impatient about the lack of planting.
This is what is supposed to happen when you plant potatoes! They're all growing!
The container is keeping pace with the buckets at this point.
The peppers went in downright quick thanks to D turning over the soil for me. I threw a row of manure on top before he did, so that was mixed in and the peppers should be happy campers tonight.
I have to grow these peppers just because they're pretty. Also, the name - Dancing Spirits - is cool.
Survivor radishes!
Last year's crop is this year's weeds? A stray tomato plant growing amongst the corn.
Breaking in the fresh till.
She's gonna get a sunburn on that belly if she's not careful.
Jack, meanwhile, has other priorities.
D helped and it went speedily as he loosened the soil and mixed in manure for me. Today he went a little roto-tiller happy (I needed one row tilled for the peppers - one - and somehow most of the garden ended up turned over) and that led to carting out more buckets of rocks, most of which were the size of my fist if not larger. This evening he was finally able to bring me the mulch though and covered 3/4 of the tomato area with it, so I'm not complaining. We'll be covering a good bit more area tomorrow.
The list of tomato cultivars actually planted now that the dust of various circumstances has settled is as follows:
Black Krim - 13 (a couple are part of the initial planting, the rest are purchased)
Black Plum - 3 (initial planting)
Tommy Toe - 1 (initial planting)
Country Taste - 2 (purchased)
Cherokee Purple - 2 (purchased)
Celebrity - 3 (purchased)
Opalka - 2 (initial)
Sweet 100 - 2 (one of the homeless plants)
Green Zebra - 2 (purchased)
Speckled Roman - 1 (initial)
Roma - 10 (a mix of homeless plants and purchased)
Nyagous - 3 (initial)
Purple Russian - 4 (from the compost pile - I think they're PR, if not then they're Speckled Roman)
Red Calabash - 2 (both part of the homeless plants)
Today I planted peppers, which were squeezed between the northernmost block of corn and the onions/leeks. I hadn't used the entire corn block and there's plenty of room to the next corn block so that it won't shade out the peppers. If the peppers shadow the onions/leeks a bit, those plants won't mind, so it should all be fine and dandy. The totals there are:
Dancing Spirits - 3
Mulato Isleno - 2
Peguis - 4
Ancho Magnifico - 4
California Wonder 300 - 6 (with 3 extra plants still in the greenhouse)
I also planted the aforementioned onions today (leeks were the day before yesterday) and the 32 daisies. I'd originally planned for the leeks and bunching onions to be in one row, and the storage onions in another, but they ended up all fitting in one row (there's 36 leeks and just shy of 100 onions total - planting them took a while). The daisies (Sky & Ice and Ballade Mix) went in on the edge of the garden just north of the peas. It was random - D had tilled it and they needed to be planted, so there they went. Tomorrow I need to do something with the 9 impatiens plants and the 2 sunflowers. Oh, and the herbs. And the beets.
Taking pictures of the entire garden is going to be a challenge this year. This is the best angle and it's just going to be a sea of green.
Potential
This is one from the initial planting that's bound and determined to make its mark on the world - it's in flower.
Why, yes, they could all look like this right now. *sigh* On the other hand, I found out today that D's grandmother apparently already has a tomato plant at her house so this one is MINE, ALL MINE! Bwahahaha! So I officially have 51, but this is my only Sweet Million, which are my favorite cherry tomato.
The impatiens are... well, impatient about the lack of planting.
This is what is supposed to happen when you plant potatoes! They're all growing!
The container is keeping pace with the buckets at this point.
The peppers went in downright quick thanks to D turning over the soil for me. I threw a row of manure on top before he did, so that was mixed in and the peppers should be happy campers tonight.
I have to grow these peppers just because they're pretty. Also, the name - Dancing Spirits - is cool.
Survivor radishes!
Last year's crop is this year's weeds? A stray tomato plant growing amongst the corn.
Breaking in the fresh till.
She's gonna get a sunburn on that belly if she's not careful.
Jack, meanwhile, has other priorities.
