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Kinds Of Veggies Planted
Apr 18, 2007 | 8:34 AM PST
Tags: veggies , fruit

The kinds of veggies that we have planted so far this year are---

ASPARAGUS, Jersey Giant, Purple Passion and Martha Washington

GARLIC, volunteer that came up in the garden early this spring, must have missed it last fall

ONION,  CARROTS,   PARSNIP,  BLUEBERRY, DILLS ATLANTIC GIANT PUMPKIN

ZUCCHINI,    POTATO,    BELL PEPPER,   HOT PEPPERS,   MESCLUN MIX,    SPINACH

KOHLRABI,   CUCUMBER,  KENTUCKY WONDER POLE BEANS,   PURPLE POD POLE BEANS

RADISH,   CABBAGE,   RED SAILS LETTUCE,    CRUNCHY FRILLS LETTUCE,    BUTTERNUT SQUASH

SPAGHETTI SQUASH,   TOMATOES---sweet 100, brandy wine, burpee supersteak hybrid,  rutger,

WATERMELON,    AND CELESTE FIG TREE

Mulch
Apr 18, 2007 | 7:37 AM PST
Tag: mulch
The second saturday of each month there is a free mulch give away in town here.  We had gotten some last summer and decided to get some to use to cover the garden.  You do have to pick out the sticks that are too large and the occasion pinecone that wasn't completely chopped up, but hey, its FREE.  Saturday I went and got the back of the truck filled.  Two big scoops from a front loader, he just dumped it in.  We laid newspapers in all of the aisles and between the plants, spritzed them with the hose so they didn't fold up with the breeze then covered them with 3 to 4 inches of mulch.  If it packs down or settles we can spread more latter this summer.  We did all of that last night and got about 3/4 of the way done.  I'm just glad that we will be able to finish it with one truck load.  Next month I will get another load (maybe just half full) so I can do all of the flower beds and some of the area around the chicken house. 

Progress!!!
Apr 12, 2007 | 8:19 AM PST
Tags: veggies , Strawberries , potatoes

We have got sooooooo much done in the last week.  The vegetable garden is much closer to being...well you can't really say done, but just about everything is planted.  The only things left to be planted are the Eggplant, (which I think I will wait another week for it to warm up just a little more at night) and the Melons (cantaloupe and Chantarais melon). 

The strawberries are doing great too.  Berries are ripening just about every day.  The only problem is we haven't been able to enjoy them because the birds keep eating half of each berry.  Yesterday I put some bird netting over them that I folded in half.  I hope that does the trip and keeps them out.

Potatoes are doing awsome, at least from all appearances  that is.  They are plenty tall and the flowers are starting to open as of a couple of days ago.  The flowers on the white potatoes are a white backround with just a slight touch of lavender on each petal and a yellow center.  The red potatoes have a medium purple flower with a yellow center.  I haven't seen any pollinators around them though and I am not sure if they even need it.  I am excited to dig into the mulch and see whats there but I really want to wait until they get bigger until we dig them all out.  So I will try to exercise some self control and wait until the plants start to die back to take a peek.  I have planted white, red and purple. 

Gardening 2007
Apr 6, 2007 | 10:53 AM PST

Well, I have never done any blogging before.  I am hoping that this will help me to be more organized like a garden journal of sorts.  Where to start, how about what I have accomplished so far this spring.  We had planted a pink dogwood in the front yard last year.  A little too late in the spring and the tree was pretty small. The summer heat scorched the poor thing to death.  When I checked it out in early Feb. it was very brittle and completely dead.  I found another one at the Garden Center that looked great (even though it didn't even have any leaves on it yet).  Its taller than me and was only $25.00.  We loosened the soil again and added more soil to raise the bed to make the bed more of a focal point.  There were fire ants on one side of the bed and they were going crazy.  Both hubby and I got bit.  My rubber coated garden gloves helped though.  We planted the tree, put in some fertilizer stakes, trimmed some very low branches, and wrapped the trunk with...I guess its called tree wrap.  Then we planted pink creeping phlox in a few places and added lily and gladiolus bulbs and added mulch.  We are hoping that the phlox will take over and the bulbs will come up in the spring through it. Then when they are done we can cut them back and still have the phlox to enjoy through the last of the summer.  Since we did all of that the tree has done well, it has leafed out nicely and we are hoping it does great there.  Last night we added a stake out at the side of the bed and pulled the trunk a little straighter, it had a little curve in the trunk.  When it gets older maybe it will stay where we pulled it to.  Maybe they should call this babbling instead of blogging??  LOL                           
    Later,

                         
                              
  Angela