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helwenStayed home from barbecue and class today -- we were finally making significant progress today, and with the amount that needs doing, decided to keep on with it. Weeded, watered, planted!
New stuff:
- bush green beans, soldier beans, carrots, parsnips, turnips.
- Butternut, Delicata, Summer, & Hubbard squashes.
- Pumpkins, cucumbers, corn (meal), some oats, and ginger.
- grass seed in a number of places, the two largest areas being where the two black walnuts and the old maple stump were taken away.
- a bit of borage
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Missed mentioning the start of planting sweet corn yesterday. More is planted every 2 weeks, to extend the harvest season.
Above done by both of us. L did lots of work in the herb garden, rediscovering the Lavendar, among other things. He also did more mowing, and added the fourth wall to the new compost bin he made by the lower garden.
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If it doesn't rain _all_ day tomorrow, I'll put the rest of the ginger in. New, larger space for them (L's idea), so hopefully we'll get lots of ginger, and be able to sell some of it to Elmers.
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NOTES: Keeping small parsnips and carrots over indoors and then trying to replant them doesn't work. Leaving them in the ground works fine, but there's a question of if they'll be edible or not. If they go to seed, I'll crop all the carrots and try to seed save off some of the parsnips. Carrots can cross with Queen Anne's Lace, and I'm not keen on that.
Replanting onions that were in winter storage and sprouted works fine. Fall planting of garlic and onions looks great!
Sunchokes are also thriving, and need to be moved before they become a fixture in the garden bed. They're part of the naturalization of edible plants program. And according to a good friend, apparently they love living with asparagus and creeping Charlie.
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Did get in some practice of forms today, at least.
New stuff:
- bush green beans, soldier beans, carrots, parsnips, turnips.
- Butternut, Delicata, Summer, & Hubbard squashes.
- Pumpkins, cucumbers, corn (meal), some oats, and ginger.
- grass seed in a number of places, the two largest areas being where the two black walnuts and the old maple stump were taken away.
- a bit of borage
***
Missed mentioning the start of planting sweet corn yesterday. More is planted every 2 weeks, to extend the harvest season.
Above done by both of us. L did lots of work in the herb garden, rediscovering the Lavendar, among other things. He also did more mowing, and added the fourth wall to the new compost bin he made by the lower garden.
***
If it doesn't rain _all_ day tomorrow, I'll put the rest of the ginger in. New, larger space for them (L's idea), so hopefully we'll get lots of ginger, and be able to sell some of it to Elmers.
***
NOTES: Keeping small parsnips and carrots over indoors and then trying to replant them doesn't work. Leaving them in the ground works fine, but there's a question of if they'll be edible or not. If they go to seed, I'll crop all the carrots and try to seed save off some of the parsnips. Carrots can cross with Queen Anne's Lace, and I'm not keen on that.
Replanting onions that were in winter storage and sprouted works fine. Fall planting of garlic and onions looks great!
Sunchokes are also thriving, and need to be moved before they become a fixture in the garden bed. They're part of the naturalization of edible plants program. And according to a good friend, apparently they love living with asparagus and creeping Charlie.
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Did get in some practice of forms today, at least.
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Date: 2010-05-31 11:59 pm (UTC)It seems they love Nitrogen, and aren't friends with nightshades. That might be why they grow so well for me.
http://myfolia.com/plants/424-jerusalem-artichoke-helianthus-tuberosus
http://www.harvestwizard.com/2009/03/how_to_grow_sunchoke.html
Hm. I think I need to turn the compost tomorrow.
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Date: 2010-06-01 03:00 pm (UTC)Our potatoes and tomatoes are far enough away from them for now. Although L had the theory that maybe we could "hedge" them with nightshades, to keep them from spreading too fast... but I think I'd rather just companion plant them at this point.
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Date: 2010-06-01 02:14 am (UTC)To everyone's laughter! We had fun!
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Date: 2010-06-01 02:57 pm (UTC)