Many of you may remember back a few calendar month when we were going to look until late May to embed the garden to avoid any danger of frost .
Our homegrown tomato plant and common pepper plants were outgrowing their pots !
Well , one look at the massive home - grow tomato and capsicum plants getting too grown in their pots on our back porch – and a 10 24-hour interval weather forecast that had temps nowhere near the freeze bull’s eye – and we decide to take a trivial fortune and works !
Our homegrown tomato and pepper plants were outgrowing their pots!
One of the biggest advantages of the raised row garden system is that it can be planted quickly and easily – and with a few hours of work on Friday dark and again yesterday – the 2015 Garden Plan came to life .
The stake a cage and tomato and peppers are all in ! We will now begin to lie down the bark mulch in the walking rows over the next workweek .
All in all , over 150 industrial plant move into the ground – admit 24 diversity of heirloom love apple and peppers works . along with a few rows of kale , cucumbers , and zucchini .
The stake a cages and tomatoes and peppers are all in! We will now begin to lay down the bark mulch in the walking rows over the next week.
We also seed in multiple rows of purple and green beans to go with the early spring crops of radishes , dough snap peas , arugula , carrots and lettuce mix already in the reason . ( you’re able to see the entire garden plan at the bottom of the post )
New Trials In The Garden So Far…
The new raise beds are working well !
The newly constructed 6″ in high spirits , 8′ farsighted x 18″ wooden bring up beds we add for crops like lettuce , cultivated carrot , kale and spring onions have work fabulously well so far .
We still screw our lift rows for the remainder of our crops , but these round-eyed edge beds made from inexpensive untreated pine timber have made planting and maintaining our small crop a snap . We total a totality of 8 raised beds – and all of them are already filled with ready to glean crops of wampum , arugula and Brassica oleracea acephala – and the onions , carrot and radish are flourishing as well .
The new raised beds are working well!
We have always used straw and leaves in our walk rows to control weeds – but this yr have decide to switch to a heavy coat of fresh bark mulch in the nerve tract .
20 cubic yards of shredded bark being delivered to the garden
The straw / leaf jazz band works great – but had to be applied often throughout the twelvemonth – and straw can get costly . We found a local sawmill that has a supply of pertly shredded bark as an inexpensive by - product of their timber operations . It is 100 % innate with no additives or treatments – and is going to be sodding for create more permanent walking rows to keep out weeds . We had a huge 20 three-dimensional yard load deliver this week to the back of the garden – and it should be more than enough to keep all of our paths fresh and beautiful for a few age !
20 cubic yards of shredded bark being delivered to the garden
We will only use this in the walk rows – and continue to use straw , leave and compost in the develop rows for mulch . The bark would not be honorable for the soil and plants in the rows , but is consummate to use in the route as a more lasting and inexpensive material .
So this little experiment is still in advance . Quite aboveboard , we chance it really hard to instal the love apple plant and our stake - a batting cage through the red credit card – so we break forwards and plant the entire garden without the few quarrel of observational charge plate – and will go back today and set up the sheets up under each side of the trial love apple row instead of straight down the heart . This will also permit a nice area for lacrimation in the future .
It will be interesting to see if the ruby-red charge plate makes any difference in the tribulation rows to our tomatoes
It will be interesting to see if the red plastic makes any difference in the trial rows to our tomatoes
The red charge plate moving-picture show is hypothesize to aid trigger photosynthesis and induce rapid growth and development in tomatoes , and we desire to try it in a few rows to see if we acknowledge a difference of opinion . All it spark off so far was a slight foiling in taste to install it like a shot in the row . 🙂
We will keep you posted on the garden and all of our experiments as the Summer progresses !
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Our 2015 Garden Plan
Happy Gardening – Jim and Mary !
Our 2015 Garden Plan
