Post by saysfaa on Apr 3, 2021 15:05:33 GMT -5
Anyone want to share what they are planting this year?
Last year, our first garden fed us all the veggies we could eat so I consider it a success. I'm hoping for a little more variety this year, though. We ate a awfully lot of zucchini and kentucky wonder pole beans last year.
I have tomatoes and asparagus started again this year. I'm doing the current tomatoes again, but only four, not the whole packet of 64 like last year. Also the other four varieties from last year's seed packets. And I bought one packet of a new one to try... Fourth of July. It was the shortest day I could find.
The tomatoes in the home garden almost totally failed last year, I think because of the walnut trees they are planted under. This year we are trying then in pots behind the garden fence. Most will go in the farm garden.
The new things are marigolds and four o'clocks.
Peas, carrots, spinach, and lettuce were planted a couple of weeks ago...and sweet pea wild flowers last week. The second planting of all of the above go in today, as well as potatoes and onions.
My husband offered to expand the garden, so I'm thinking of another 25' (off the short end of the current 20x50 fence). That will let me put a few pumpkins or winter squash in... the few squash we saved from the deer were amazingly good, but the deer got most of them because I had to let them expand out through the fence. He suggested doubling the garden but it took weeks and weeks to take the grass roots out of that much sod. Besides, the go slow thing.
Also, we are going to put a t-post and woven wire fence five feet out from the main fence. That will be a combo chicken tunnel, expanded garden if the chickens leave us anything in it, and deer fence. I'm trying the double fence method of deer fencing instead of 7+ feet high method partly because I want it for the chickens anyway and partly because I didn't much like the white deer tape that we had for above the woven wire. I like visually quieter and that isn't quiet even on the rare occasions it wasn't fluttering.
The farm garden will get most of the tomatoes, more winter squash, beans, and maybe other things.
Last year, our first garden fed us all the veggies we could eat so I consider it a success. I'm hoping for a little more variety this year, though. We ate a awfully lot of zucchini and kentucky wonder pole beans last year.
I have tomatoes and asparagus started again this year. I'm doing the current tomatoes again, but only four, not the whole packet of 64 like last year. Also the other four varieties from last year's seed packets. And I bought one packet of a new one to try... Fourth of July. It was the shortest day I could find.
The tomatoes in the home garden almost totally failed last year, I think because of the walnut trees they are planted under. This year we are trying then in pots behind the garden fence. Most will go in the farm garden.
The new things are marigolds and four o'clocks.
Peas, carrots, spinach, and lettuce were planted a couple of weeks ago...and sweet pea wild flowers last week. The second planting of all of the above go in today, as well as potatoes and onions.
My husband offered to expand the garden, so I'm thinking of another 25' (off the short end of the current 20x50 fence). That will let me put a few pumpkins or winter squash in... the few squash we saved from the deer were amazingly good, but the deer got most of them because I had to let them expand out through the fence. He suggested doubling the garden but it took weeks and weeks to take the grass roots out of that much sod. Besides, the go slow thing.
Also, we are going to put a t-post and woven wire fence five feet out from the main fence. That will be a combo chicken tunnel, expanded garden if the chickens leave us anything in it, and deer fence. I'm trying the double fence method of deer fencing instead of 7+ feet high method partly because I want it for the chickens anyway and partly because I didn't much like the white deer tape that we had for above the woven wire. I like visually quieter and that isn't quiet even on the rare occasions it wasn't fluttering.
The farm garden will get most of the tomatoes, more winter squash, beans, and maybe other things.
