in the 18 inches behind the potatoes i planted some striped maize. Japonica striped maize to be specific. However i was being watched closely by a perky, gray Catbird and i'm not sure if she's going to undo my work.
Lack of room seems to be this year's gardening theme.
When i run the rows North to South instead of East to West i lose a few feet on each row so i have less room. But i do it to enforce a fairly consistent crop rotation thing. This year, as usual, i overbooked my space. Turns out that the almost complete failure of the root crop row has freed up some space for some of that overbooking. I put in a whole row of sunflowers there. In between the sunflowers, i tucked in the broccoli. The sunflowers look good, but the broccoli are pathetic. Barely 3 inches high and a malnourished color. Most of my seedlings spent too much time languishing in the seed flats with either too much water or too little and fertilizing attempts were somewhat wasted when the trays overflowed with rainwater and roots suffered further when they didn't properly drain.
I got the rest of the squashes in and most of the herbs. There's a couple flat-leaved parsley, a few lettuce-leafed basil and some pathetic looking Red Russian kale.
This is what i am doing to try and contain some of the overflow.
SOme herbs, some chinese cabbage, assorted salad greens seedlings, flowers and a few pots of herbs i just seeded. I realized with annoyance yesterday that i have no more cilantro seeds.
The tomatoes are looking great. They need pruning and i have to get them staked and twined. That is planned for today.
Freshly planted ornamental sunflowers:
A couple broccoli plants tucked in among them. I didn't want to put the broccoli on plastic. They are heat stressed enough and i don't think broccoli likes the extra heat from the plastic later in the season.
The beans are looking good. Wish i had allowed room for another row of them. I might be able to sneak some in on the other side of the cuke/melon row.... early enough so they won't get shaded out?
I have seeds for Yard Long beans. I read a lot that vining beans are room savers, but the trellising and staking seems to be beyond my ability to plan for, so it never happens. Instead of bush beans i just might sneak in a few yard-long seeds behind the melons....
a little while later....
Tomatoes, Pruned, staked and weaved.
1 comment:
Wow, your garden is coming along quite well ! The slugs have been wiping us out and my husband has replanted beans & lettuces twice because of them.
If all goes well you'll have a pretty nice harvest !
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