Wednesday, May 27 2009

Garden planting countdown

After a rush of work on the garden last weekend, nearly everything is planted, and some things that I planted over two months ago are starting to look really promising. Like the pea plants:

Outside of the peas, of which I have four rows, this year I'm planting a lot more of a little. For instance, two eggplant plants. Two pepper plants. A length of beets that might span 18 inches. A short two-foot row of red onions. A longer row of yellow onions. Three feet of spring onions. Etc.

Even so, we had to expand the garden quite a bit -- maybe by 1/3rd, in order to account for my overzealous plans. I think I'm maxed out now, in terms of garden size.

Even though a neighbor came by with a huge tiller behind a small tractor, to dig up a new swath of garden, that soil still required a lot of tending before we could plant anything there. I had to turn the soil over and break up clumps of dense matter that was speckled with clay. Then I worked in some mushroom soil, and pulled out the roots of the sod that had been torn up, so it wouldn't re-sprout. Here's the view of the entire garden area, around mid-last weekend:

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