Lil post-rain garden update:
-I put up a little white fence around the main beds to stop our friends’ puppy from barrelling through the plants. It sort of works, but also the garden kinda looks like it’s on purpose now! I’ve got tomatoes in there, dino kale, and 5 okra plants, because even though I don’t love okra I’d like to be sure I’ll succeed at something this year, and it’s hard to fail at okra in NC. The big sheet of plastic held down by beekeeping equipment is an attempt to kill the grass over there so I can make more beds in time for fall planting.
-This is my little hugel bed that the grass has attempted to swallow and Omie has tried to excavate, and I didn’t even plant anything in it this year, but those field peas just keep planting themselves! I’m just mowing around it to try to keep it manageable; beans starting to form now. I’m considering a trellis.
-Comfrey rocking out in the back. Harvested a good quantity for mulch/fertilizer a few weeks ago, and you can’t even tell. Time to take a bunch for medicinal preparations, I think.
-I’m trying pruning my tomatoes this year to help prevent disease. Good air flow + keeping leaving higher off the ground. These 3 ended up too close together, so they can use the help.
