This year we planted our garden on June 6, 2011 after many weeks of planning and a weekend of cutting sod for our two new garden additions. This year, the main garden consists of 40 tomato plants and 30 pepper plants along with my “experiment” for the year, mixed greens, spinach, and other assorted lettuces. The first three days after the garden was planted were the hottest days of the year to date-we were very close to losing all our plants to the heat. With a little luck and a lot of TLC, all but two of the plants survived. They are a little behind the curve, size-wise, but are looking healthy and happy today. The two new gardens we cut in flank the main garden to the east and west. The garden to the west is Cory’s garden-he chose each of the plants and seeds and helped plant each of them. He planted a blueberry bush, strawberries, giant pumpkins and hot peppers. He did have some room left, so I did plant our cucumbers in that garden as well. When the cucumbers, pumpkins and strawberries are harvested, we plan to put in raspberries alongside the blueberry bush. I have a feeling this garden will be expanded to become our “berry field”… The garden to the east is my herb garden-or it was supposed to be my herb garden. Apparently, I purchased entirely too many pepper plants- so the plants that remained after the main garden was full (about 12) were planted here along with a few herbs (three kinds of lavender, basil, chives and parsley). As of today all the plants are doing well but we will be taking some disease-prevention measures to keep them healthy. The past few years, we have had problems with Blossom End Rot on our tomatoes and some of our peppers. I read in Organic Gardening Magazine that this may be caused by a calcium deficiency. To combat this, we have sprinkled dolomitic lime around these plants. We will also be using an organic pesticide. So far, so good…more on the garden-specifically, flowers…tomorrow!
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