Since my last post I have accomplish alot. I've turned over the soil (no tiller for me, it was all shovel), planted three different onions, beets, lettuce and chard, started seedlings for cantelope, honeydew, basil, chives, cilantro, pumpkin, bell peppers, stevia, tomato and tomatillo.
What I have to show, at this moment, with respect to the seedlings are baby plants for the pumpkin, bell pepper, cilantro and basil. As to all the others, it looks good but hard to tell until something sprouts.
I'm using egg containers to start the seedlings. They are the type of containers that are biodegradable and each carton is either twelve or eighteen plantings. I ordered, from Burpee a package of 72 growing pellets, the seeds for the stevia, tomatillo and tomato. The other seeds I had purchased from SafeWay or took them from the melons I had purchased, as in the case of the pumpkins, catelope and honeydew.
All in all, I hope to be planting the seedlings in two to three weeks (keep your fingers crossed for me). In all, if all sprout I will be planting in my little country garden another 72 plants.
Ya know what else? I have about twenty small plants coming up in the garden on their own. I believe they're melons. Why? Because with each melon we ate last season I threw the seeds into my garden. The leaf of these small plants look alot like the leaf of the small water melon leaf I planted last year. That would be nice, those small melons were very sweet and tasty.
Until next...happy gardening!
From Anthony
Monday, March 28, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
2011 Garden
I have now turned over an area of 30 x 30 feet. All the compost I threw in over last summer has made a big difference. Last year I didn't see alot of worms in turning over the soil. This year I have three to five worms with each shovel of dirt I turned over.
The artichoke plant is now three plants; two new plants grew from the original plant. I plan to dig two up and seperate them off the initial plant and replant them far enough apart to hopefully get another split this year. The sage is doing great and I transplanted the chives and thyme from a somewhat sunny spot to a sunny spot. I'm planning on planting more herbs, oragano, rosemary, dill. In addition this year I will be planting several different chiles, including sweet small bellpeppers. I will also plant tomatos and melons.
I'm thinking of planting a thornless black berrie plant just because I like black berries. Because these plants can get out of hand if not cut way back, I'm having second thoughts.
Three weeks ago I planted Wala Wala onions (6 plants), red onion (6), chard (6), white onion (6), lettuce (6) and spinach (6). The birds ate two of the chard plants and one of the Wala Wala plants. I learned and covered the remaining plants with mesh wire. So the remaining plants are now doing better.
I planted two new fruit trees; one elephant plumb and one newhaven peach. I pruned my palmagranite tree that looked like a wild bush, back to two main trunks (down from ten). This tree (bush) is a great producer, I hope cutting it back ultimately greates even greater production.
n January I was given a plant native to El Salvador by a good friend from ES. It produces a flower-like fruit that looks like a flower. This fruit is tasty when pickled. I like the plant because it can grow like a tree to be tall but not too tall.
I put in a crude pit so that I can have a small camp fire near the garden. I've already used it several times. Though the nites were cold, I was warmed with sweet memories. Why does a campfire always have that impact on people?
I asked my son for a suggestion for the garden and he suggested Stevia; it is a small plant who's leaves are very sweet. Compared to sugar they are sweeter. This came up when I shared with my son that Ana and I have changed our eating habits; we are now officially cave people (the cave man diet). Basically we are limiting our intake of carbs to 15% or less. I mentioned that what I missed most was the sweetness in my deserts. That's when he suggested I look up Stevia. Well, I looked it up and I intend to add it to my garden. It's a perineal, though the reading suggests its hard to start. But once started it does well.
I'll try to remember to take recent photos of my garden for my next post.
Hope all is well with you and your family.
The artichoke plant is now three plants; two new plants grew from the original plant. I plan to dig two up and seperate them off the initial plant and replant them far enough apart to hopefully get another split this year. The sage is doing great and I transplanted the chives and thyme from a somewhat sunny spot to a sunny spot. I'm planning on planting more herbs, oragano, rosemary, dill. In addition this year I will be planting several different chiles, including sweet small bellpeppers. I will also plant tomatos and melons.
I'm thinking of planting a thornless black berrie plant just because I like black berries. Because these plants can get out of hand if not cut way back, I'm having second thoughts.
Three weeks ago I planted Wala Wala onions (6 plants), red onion (6), chard (6), white onion (6), lettuce (6) and spinach (6). The birds ate two of the chard plants and one of the Wala Wala plants. I learned and covered the remaining plants with mesh wire. So the remaining plants are now doing better.
I planted two new fruit trees; one elephant plumb and one newhaven peach. I pruned my palmagranite tree that looked like a wild bush, back to two main trunks (down from ten). This tree (bush) is a great producer, I hope cutting it back ultimately greates even greater production.
n January I was given a plant native to El Salvador by a good friend from ES. It produces a flower-like fruit that looks like a flower. This fruit is tasty when pickled. I like the plant because it can grow like a tree to be tall but not too tall.
I put in a crude pit so that I can have a small camp fire near the garden. I've already used it several times. Though the nites were cold, I was warmed with sweet memories. Why does a campfire always have that impact on people?
I asked my son for a suggestion for the garden and he suggested Stevia; it is a small plant who's leaves are very sweet. Compared to sugar they are sweeter. This came up when I shared with my son that Ana and I have changed our eating habits; we are now officially cave people (the cave man diet). Basically we are limiting our intake of carbs to 15% or less. I mentioned that what I missed most was the sweetness in my deserts. That's when he suggested I look up Stevia. Well, I looked it up and I intend to add it to my garden. It's a perineal, though the reading suggests its hard to start. But once started it does well.
I'll try to remember to take recent photos of my garden for my next post.
Hope all is well with you and your family.
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