#interplanting

Bumping up the flower interplanting this year. I’m so here for it.

What I turned under this Spring...

Some of what I planted... & didn't plant...

I was able to head outside this evening and finish the transplanting I didn’t get to do this morning. My daughter had mulched the tomatoes with shredded paper for me while I was out. I made a trench in the mulch and transplanted the Red Wethersfield onions. Almost the entire tray of onions made it into the bed. All the other beds are bordered with the yellow Talon onion. That leaves the Red of…

Get lots of tomatoes and peppers from a small space.

Planting these tomatoes was the first step in developing this raised bed. One of the widely practiced strategies used in gardening involves interplanting. Intercropping is a gardening strategy that involves planting or growing more than one crop at the same time and on the same piece of land. It means having more than one type of crop growing in the same space at the same time. It also means…

The only thing I don’t like about Summer is the creepers. I spent 20 minutes opening the briar rose hedge with anvil shears so the police could retrieve stolen articles (purses and back backs). Don’t ask me how they wiggled through (the creepers) but they must have been very high or desperate.  This all started because the postal carrier refuses to put my mail through the door slot like everyone else in the neighborhood and instead sticks it in a planter which then forces me to go look throughout the front yard, looking for my mail here and there, because the meth-heads pre-sort it for me, then really help the carrier hide it by playing the Easter Bunny -- hide and go seek with my mail. So needless to say, we have to take down a great deal of the jungle because people can’t behave and I don’t want that HERE. I am very intolerant of bad behavior and I won’t apologize for my rising anger to the PC crowd. I won’t be getting many rose hips because of this -- they are way too green and small to even begin to salvage.

Need to get someone with a ladder to finish picking the plums. I have too many bipeds and furry bandits in the night. We will just eliminate the problem by removing all the fruits so we can get a good night’s sleep. Enough already.

Who knew that urban homesteading was going to be this difficult! Every year seems to get harder. I have great compassion for the small family farmer!

The little toms I thought I was going to have to over-winter have kicked it into high gear! Zoom! They are almost big enough to start blossoming! Can’t wait to see who they are (volunteer plants).

The single little cress in my bowl is doing well if I can keep the golden chain fern and hops off of it. I think I just have to get brutal and bring out the electric hedge clippers. I was hoping the hops would put more effort into flowering instead of climbing -- I can’t keep up with it And the kiwi. The kiwi is now tangled in the Hall’s almond and is forcing the hazels to grow out and under.  Soon I won’t have a laundry line!

Moving the artichokes soon. Waiting for the ones I let bloom for the bees and butterflies to finish business. I think I am going to try interplanting with the sea buckthorns which one is going to fruit! When did that happen!? I feel like I have been asleep at the helm.

Tommy comes every morning and stares at me. Once we make eye contact, he literally turns his back on me, waits briefly, and then flies off. Nothing like being given the cold shoulder by a raven. His foot is looking better and not so gimpy. I’m happy he is on his way even if he is mad at me. Tough love sometimes is a good thing even though it hurts.

Getting ready to move the worm bin out of the kitchen and into the garden. I think they have settled enough. I looked in at them and stirred around …. I love seeing the little ones nestled in egg shells. I know, cooing at baby worms may be weird to some peoples but I just love babies of any sorts... well most … some ... The worm seller was very considerate (remember I bought these off of Amazon!) and gave me a full refund so we will try again when the weather cools but before freezing.