Okra, Brussels Sprouts, Sweet Potatoes, Garlic, Cabbage, Strawberries, Beets, Carrots, Peas, Potatoes, Squash, Watermelons, Zucchini. I need to plant cucumbers where those peas are, but I’m giving them ONE MORE week before they are evicted.
Posts Tagged ‘strawberries’
14 May
Jimmy Watering the Garden
Almost everything has been planted now. I just have green beans and cucumbers left to direct-seed. Also, I’m trying a little chin beard, but I’m undecided on it. I think I’m going to let it get a bit longer and see how it looks then.
9 May
First Strawberries of 2012
I finally collected enough red strawberries to make a quick shortcake for dessert tonight. I had hoped to have far more strawberry plants by 2012, but the dry weather last year killed many of them. At any rate, it was a delicious treat, because we only eat fresh strawberries in season. That’s white sugar on [...]
24 Mar
Strawberry Plant
I took a set of photos in my garden this morning with my “real” camera…as opposed to cell phone photography. It takes a few extra minutes, but the results are so much better! This is a close-up of a strawberry plant that seems to be doing a great job recovering from an easy winter under [...]
20 Mar
2012 Strawberry Propagation
As I cleaned the winter cover off last year’s strawberry patch–raised beds whose soil had dried as hard as a rock through August’s heat wave–I found many unrooted runners. The mother plant had long enough roots underground to find water, but the baked soil was too much for the baby plant roots to penetrate. They [...]
27 Feb
Spring Garden Planning – on Paper
When I originally built my first set of garden beds in 2008, I had a brilliant idea. Every web site and book I could find was telling me that I wanted my garden beds to be 4 feet wide, for the convenience of reaching the crops easily and the benefit of never having to set [...]
7 Jun
June 1st Garden Panorama
If you look closely enough you can see a few of the “stitching” mistakes. Oh well, you get the idea.
13 May
Strawberry bed plan – long term
I have been reading that Strawberry production declines after a few years and that there is some maintenance that can keep a patch of berries going longer. I have come up with a long term plan that could keep my 6 ft x 8 ft bed of strawberries going for quite a while. It’s completely [...]
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