Gardeny Goodness

Here are a few plantin' pics from this past week.

On Wednesday I spent a WHOLE lotta time digging out weeds and turning over a couple of beds.

Trevor got to plant his peppers.


Same kid, different photographer (Nolan)


Then I had Trevor and Nolan plant the beans.
(it's fun as long as you don't have to plant more than one row)

The next day I went to work on the tomatoes.

Measures become more extraordinary each year, in attempts to thwart the blight fungus that resides in the soil.

For two years now, I've been putting down cheap fabric from Wal*Mart.
This year I extended onto the paths.

The idea is not to have dirt touch the leaves. I pick off the bottom branches. And the reason these tomato plants look so pathetic is because I--being "thrifty," remember--bought several pots that had extra plants growing right beside each other. You get more plants for your money, but when you have to separate them, they get really stressed out.

That's why the tomato plants pictured here are all having nervous breakdowns.

The next step (after putting in the plants and cages) is to throw some mulch on top of the fabric. Hopefully this will help prevent rain splashing dirt onto the leaves.
Last year it held off the blight for a while. I might put on extra mulch this year...

This last picture is a second little oval bed that I made, since I couldn't squeeze 8 plants into the other section.

About half the garden is straight-type beds, and 1/3 to 1/2 is morphing into winding little paths and zig-zags. It might end up being very cool, who knows? But it's fun to do something different.

Life is too long to stay in the same boring rut.
 

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