November 2017 - back in the garden!!!Now that my work hours are being cut back, I finally have time
November 2017 - back in the garden!!!Now that my work hours are being cut back, I finally have time for some projects, like gardening. I’ve been so busy this year my input has been minimal and it’s pretty much been V out here. This year I went heavy on cherry-type tomatoes and annual flowers, because our soil is still improving (technically it is considered 100% unsuitable for agricultural purposes) and also because I was able to bring home lots of tomato plants that had lost their labels.V perfected how to use all the tomatoes without the acidity getting to us - he just started adding calcium to soups. Still, I hope next year to cut down on tomatoes but I said that last year too. For some reason, our cucumber crop was a total and absolute failure this year. I’m testing out a bed that’s had some Brassica stem rot that I then planted corn in, which a coworker told me will help fend off the nematode that causes it. So we’ll see what happens to the new Brassicas, assuming the cats do not destroy the bed AGAIN. This will be round 2 of plants in Dome 2 East…As always, the soil in our beds is slowly improving. This bed pictured above has been continually filled with plants and was heavily - though not fully reworked - last winter. It made a huge difference! However I did not add mulch because I was direct sowing a bunch of things and got paranoid - then the weeds ran rampant ugh. Now we’re sort of finishing up the earlier - removing those rampant weeds, digging down very deep to remove all the rocks, adding in mulch and V’s custom biostimulant. The rocks are hauled up in buckets to a low wall V is making. This bed was originally dubbed the ‘Peach Triangle’ and later, part of the ‘Two Triangles’ beds.The bed currently contains our best peach tree - a Redhaven peach, Swamp Sunflower, some native Iris I grew from seed I collected, some Mountain Mint that V keeps harvesting from, a few strawberries, some lavender, a raging Maypop (you can see some of the yellowy foliage on the left), and a Clary Sage. The area being worked will soon contain some free organic seedlings I plucked out of the garbage at work - red cabbage, green onion. Assuming everything goes to plan, of course… -- source link
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