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Post by Clipper on Jun 14, 2020 17:33:59 GMT -5
Finally finished fencing in the garden and putting up the gate today. Ralph is going to move the photos from FB to here for me. Yep, I am still dumber than a rock when it comes to that stuff, haha. The culmination of a couple of days wrestling with the rototiller just to till a 12 x 18 plot in this clay soil. It’s like cement. By the time I got it fenced in, planted, and built a gate,I have to wonder if it is all worth it to plant red, yellow, and green bell peppers, cherry peppers, ancho chili’s and a few Roma tomatoes. I love my garden but as I get older it gets a little smaller each year.🙂 (click on images for larger view)   |
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Post by BHU on Jun 14, 2020 18:31:11 GMT -5
Looking good. This year I bought some tomato cages instead of staking them. I have a drawer full of cable ties which I'll use to keep the plants from tipping over instead of using strips of cloth. Garden so far is doing good especially the swiss chard. Another month I'll be harvesting some. We need rain up here & none is forecast for at least a week. A nice steady rain shower for a day would do the garden a world of good, but we're close to being in a drought situation. Northeast N.Y. & parts of New England are already there. The grass in our backyard which gets sun for most of the day is turning brown.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2020 18:47:28 GMT -5
Looks great Clipper. I hope you can take continued photos so we can see the beauty of veggie growth. Also to see the harvest. Did you put a lot of sand also in the soil. I was wondering if that would help to loosen up the clay soil.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2020 18:49:07 GMT -5
PS. You need to plant some pole beans. I love them.......
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Post by Clipper on Jun 14, 2020 21:17:39 GMT -5
Looking good. This year I bought some tomato cages instead of staking them. I have a drawer full of cable ties which I'll use to keep the plants from tipping over instead of using strips of cloth. Garden so far is doing good especially the swiss chard. Another month I'll be harvesting some. We need rain up here & none is forecast for at least a week. A nice steady rain shower for a day would do the garden a world of good, but we're close to being in a drought situation. Northeast N.Y. & parts of New England are already there. The grass in our backyard which gets sun for most of the day is turning brown. I use the stakes AND cages. I slip the cages down over the stakes and tie them to the stake with a nylon wire tie. I just bought some more today at Harbor Freight. 11 inch ties, 100 count for $2.99. www.harborfreight.com/11-in-white-cable-ties-100-pk-60266.html?_br_psugg_q=wire+ties |
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Post by Clipper on Jun 14, 2020 21:48:44 GMT -5
Looks great Clipper. I hope you can take continued photos so we can see the beauty of veggie growth. Also to see the harvest. Did you put a lot of sand also in the soil. I was wondering if that would help to loosen up the clay soil. I have put sand on the garden before but it is very expensive here. There are no sand and gravel beds anywhere in this area. Fill around here is shale, limestone or that damned clay dirt. Sand costs about 5 bucks for a 25lb bag. I would need about 1/2 ton or more and it would cost me about $200. I will have to make do with bagged topsoil and peat moss along with my leaf mulch. I bought 25 bags of topsoil to put where I ground one of the stumps. $1.68 a 40lb bag. I can buy peat moss for $12 per 3 cubic foot bag. If I am going to continue to garden I need to invest a hundred bucks or so in soil amendments depending on how big I want to go going forward. I need to have someone plow and disc it to get it broke up enough for me to till in the peat moss and leaf mulch and such. I would love nothing more than to be able to go back to a 20 x 50 or 60, and a full range of veggies and herbs. |
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