My soaker hose was all crunchy because some moron (me) left it outside all year and it got brittle and broke as I tried to install it, so now most of the mulching has to wait til the new ones get delivered. But, that's a wrap on ~200 cubic feet of digging and amending. Pipsqueaks, Renegades, and Kakais are up. Next up, transplanting and assembling my sun shades!
Speaking of the sun, I bought myself some fancy thermometers so I can keep track of the actual conditions in my pumpkin patch and not just the city temp. Mainly what I wanted to know is what the low temp cutoff really is for successful pollination.
Apparently it got up to 134 in the sun this afternoon and this isn't even a crazy hot day. 🫠
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The found-wood fence is almost done. I ran out of twine but I'll get back at that probably tomorrow. Dirt tussled up, trenches dug, and water line laid down. My seeds are doing well in their little windowsill green house. Once it's stops freezing at night ( and they're nice and strong ) they'll be moving out here.
Good Morning! Happy Monday! I know I’ve shared this photo with y’all already, but I’m getting excited! Tomorrow I’ll start tilling and cleaning up my garden beds in preparation for my sunflower seeds. Some of my wildflower seeds will actually go in the ground tomorrow! I’m not sure what will grow, but that’s the fun of it, seeing what pops up. I’m considering solarizing the soil for my sunflowers as well. It’s a process of heating the soil up to kill bacteria and pests that might be living in the ground, and it’s fairly easy. Simply cover the ground with clear plastic and let it stit for about 4-6 weeks. Gardening can be a lot of work, but I love the payoff.
My queen & I headed out to Plot 420 today. It is the first time we’ve been able to get out here with all the rain we’ve had lately making the dirt roads too soft for driving on.
This is a fallow field on the road to the community garden. The county sometimes plants the field with forage for deer & migratory fowl:
I didn’t expect the broccoli, cabbage & lettuce to do this well without being tended. The strawberries are struggling a little but they’re alive & making blossoms:
We finished all our tilling today. We just have a little amending to do & it should be ready for planting:
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You have seeds for summer vegetables and herbs, but know they take too long to grow to really produce anything this year. Something you can do is make a seed growing shelf.
You can begin growing seeds 6 weeks before the last frost of the winter, (where you can then transplant them into an outdoor garden plot). It’s beneficial not only for you, but for the plants - giving them more time to develop makes for a higher success rate of growth and fruiting.
The set up is relatively simple:
Needed:
-wire shelf (can be purchased at target, walmart, even some grocery stores)
-plastic cups (you can find cheap small plastic cups perfect for seedlings at dollar stores)
-grow light (this is the harder and more expensive item needed to find, local gardening and hardware stores are you best bet, amazon also sells many of them)
-Soil and seeds!
How To:
-first set up your seeds, put wet soil in each cup, then 3-5 seeds - Remember to label your cups! Forgetting what you planted is the worst!
-next, set up your wire shelf and grow light. this can range from a lot of work - to none at all depending on the types of shelves and light you buy. Remember to place your shelf near an outlet so the light can reach the seeds properly.
-Place your cups on the shelf, and set up the grow lamp. You won’t need to have the lamp on 24/7 nor should you, as seeds, the grow light shouldn’t be necessary - however as your plants begin to sprout, that’s when the uv rays are necessary.
-Remember to talk to them, breath on them, our breath is actually great for these little guys!
-Transplant them to a garden once it’s a steady 65-75 degrees consistently outside, and it no longer frosts, or (if you have a big enough cup or container) continue growing them indoors, indoor herbs are perfect for this
What better quarantine activity than spring garden prep! I’ve been tilling and amending my soon-to-be pumpkin patch, about 2/3 of the way done now.
These beds began 3 years ago as hard clay and caliche that had to be presoaked and dug with a pickaxe, and I’ve been amending them every year and the soil is gradually improving. Funny thing is that I found one bed pretty ok and the other still quite hard with hardly any life in it - that one got a deeper dig and more compost. Soon I’ll see what #3 is like after having a few inches of pure compost sitting on top of it for a few weeks (that’s what’s under the plastic).
I look forward to the soil getting nice enough that I don’t have to dig up 100+ cubic feet of dirt every single year, but in the meantime it’s a nice workout!
