Last summer the vegetable garden was sorely neglected. I was too busy being pregnant and enjoying the hammock to be bothered by watering our poor spindly tomato plants. This year, with the prospect of a youngin' who will be able to enjoy carrots from our backyard, we found renewed enthusiasm for planting. We started by emptying out the boxes and refilling them with a new mix of planting soil and a bunch of composted horse manure from the nearby stables.
Each tomato plant got a huge fish head, a couple of crushed egg shells and some pulverized aspirin per this method.
Here's a list of what we planted this year:
A few years back I put in a drip irrigation system but we still hand-water occasionally to make sure everyone gets enough water and nutrients. We use fish emulsion and compost tea for fertilizing every once in a while.
- carrots
- radishes (red, purple and watermelon!)
- bunching onions
- 7 tomato plants (a big mix)
- basil
- cucumbers, persian and a regular variety
- beets
- sugar snap peas
- haricot verts
- buttercrunch lettuce
- wild arugula
- lacinato kale
- purple hillbilly spinach (!)
- celery
- an entire 4'x4' box of strawberries
- a pumpkin for little E to harvest in october
and then 2 herb pots by the kitchen door with:
- chives
- orgeano
- thyme
- purple sage
- lemon verbena
- parsley
- cilantro
1 comment:
wow your garden is amazing, and so are your pictures, I'm enjoying the blog (it makes me want to go camping, hehehe)
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