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Post by oldmobie on Jun 3, 2014 22:41:23 GMT -5
Record of planting of sidewalk trellis '14Replanted pole beans today. Mostly replanted what didn't come up, though two were replanted because they'd been bitten off. *Spoiler Alert* The link above is for my records... feel free to look at it, but it's not terribly exciting. In case anyone is interested, the table in it represents the trellis we made by hooping 4 cattle panels over an old sidewalk. The horizontal divisions represent individual panels, while the columns represent the two sides of the sidewalk/ ends of the panels. *End Spoiler Alert* ![]( "Right click to shift")
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Post by oldmobie on Jun 4, 2014 14:23:36 GMT -5
The new garden is growing in pretty well. Afraid it's time that I mulch, or I'll lose it, though. Can't see just how much corn needs replanting, until I get the grass away from it. On the plus side, I won't have to replant watermelons; all 11 hills seem to have at least 2 vines, most have all 3. Noticed true leaves for the first time today!  Inlaws asked permission to cut hay in the old pasture that's becoming my new garden. It'll cost me in free mulch, but it's saved me a BUNCH of mowing. Now I can mulch and trellis out there. (After they rake and bale.) It's high time that I get some tomatoes and cucumbers out there. And more corn. And some cover-crops.  Dry beans are starting to come up, both the Carole's and the Joseph's. Deep mulch, plus a legume crop, plus the bio-mass from the bean bushes, hopefully will equal improved soil in that area. Besides which, we should harvest a few pounds of tasty beans.  In Mrs oldmobie's new flower bed, at least one birdhouse gourd has survived the duck.  She's also having a good turnout in her sunflowers.  She's just starting to get some germination in her partial shade planting under the old slide platform. I'll have to check her notes, this may be maiden-pinks.  This year, until now, I've tried to follow organic practices, but that may be about to change. Something is eating WAY too much foliage off of my green beans. I'm trying to talk myself into trying the rhubarb leaf tea, but I suspect they'll be getting a dose of Sevin. Also, the tomatoes could really use some Osmocote. I still haven't gotten any pollen to transfer to my finger from the blooms on my Michihili cabbage, but I noticed some visitors today who thought it was producing either pollen or nectar. I count 6 butterflies.  ![]( "Right click to shift") |
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Post by oldmobie on Jun 4, 2014 21:14:43 GMT -5
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Post by steev on Jun 4, 2014 21:54:35 GMT -5
That's good!
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Post by copse on Jun 5, 2014 1:06:53 GMT -5
Where do you keep it?
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Post by oldmobie on Jun 5, 2014 3:16:16 GMT -5
Mostly in my refridgerator. I take it with me to church, and when it was in session, I took it to homeschool coop. It doesn't get a lot of traffic. I started this small on purpose, to guage the interest. So far it's been minimal, but I'd like to see it snowball. It'd be great to set it up in the public library, like other folks do. ![]( "Right click to shift") |
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Post by oldmobie on Jun 8, 2014 21:35:06 GMT -5
New "milestones" in the side by side pea trial: first plant to get a firm grip on the trellis (Joseph's).  And first bloom (store-bought). It doesn't show the bloom very well, but I've included the pic anyway for the color contrast. The Joseph's just look healthier to me, though I might save the earliest seeds for the landrace.  Good progress in the both the dry beans:  And the transplanted potatoes.  By the way, the moss rose farthest left at the bottom of the picture is just about to be the first to bloom. It was WinterSown. Today I put a bit of osmocote on my tomatoes at the trellis ("tunnel"). My wife used it on the herbs, too, and on the one sunflower coming up in the blocks at the west end. ![]( "Right click to shift") |
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Post by oldmobie on Jun 9, 2014 23:34:17 GMT -5
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Post by steev on Jun 9, 2014 23:48:40 GMT -5
What grape is that?
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Post by oldmobie on Jun 10, 2014 20:43:21 GMT -5
I think that it's concord. My ten year old thinks he remembers it will be "a purple kind instead of green". To be honest, I don't seem to have kept any record, nor the label. I also wasn't picky, as I don't like grapes, and it was on clearance. (My wife and kids do like every grape they've tried, and I wanted the boys to learn about how they grow. I want them to be at least introduced to a wide range of gardening experiences, not just my favorites. Seems to keep the younger one more interested. Also, he seems more apt to eat a new food if he had a hand in producing it.) ![]( "Right click to shift") |
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Post by steev on Jun 10, 2014 22:24:50 GMT -5
Sound reasoning.
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Post by oldmobie on Jun 11, 2014 22:48:00 GMT -5
Finally planted our new weeping willow today. Poor thing's been sitting in its burlap, propped up with bags of mulch for almost a month. Luckily, our April showers were on backorder this year, and arrived around the end of May/ beginning of June. It's been getting almost daily rain.  Also raked up some free mulch after the lawn was mowed. It's not enough, but I hated to waste it. ![]( "Right click to shift") |
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Post by steev on Jun 11, 2014 23:00:37 GMT -5
That's not the free mulch covering it's face, is it?
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Post by oldmobie on Jun 11, 2014 23:02:47 GMT -5
That's not the free mulch covering it's face, is it? Junior rake operator. |
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Post by steev on Jun 11, 2014 23:13:20 GMT -5
It's good to have help.
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