Post by Stacy on May 5, 2009 7:42:19 GMT -5
Well, Dh went nuts and I believe, overplanted everything this year. I'm not sure our garden has room enough to support what he's done.
Usually, I map it all out and plant accordingly. This year, our garden is twice as big and I was too much into milking Maggie when it came time to do most of the garden planting. (We'd started before but lost some of it due to rain and had to plant later than expected due to the same rain for the rest). So I left him to it. "Do what you want", I said. I didn't think he'd go NUTS! His rows seem VERY close together to me.
He planted succession corn from Territorial and two of the types came up great, one didn't, so he replanted THAT last weekend and decided while he was at it and had "extra" seeds, to add two more rows!!
He planted the cukes and the watermelons VERY close to each other and I told him we're not going to be able to tell the vines apart and they're going to grow all together. He just shrugged. He added not TWO more tomato plants last weekend, but 20!! (Big Boy bought in a bundle) to an area we weren't planting... torn down chicken pen area. I gotta be honest, I'd thought six plants was enough this year. That was in addition to an entire row of seeds he put down just to see what happens, of yellow slicing tomatoes!
He put potatoes back in and actually only put three rows, whereas before we'd had seven.
Not two rows of snow peas when most didn't grow the first time 'round, but now it's FIVE rows of snow peas and they are all growing!
We thought we'd lost the Texas Sweet onions or were going to because of the rain, so we replanted some kinda GA sweet onion (not vidalias) and not only did we NOT lose the first set, the second set is doing well and he put some seeds in a third row for a whole other kinda sweet onion! I take responsibilty for the second row of sweet onions here. ;D But not the third!
At least the broccoli rows and green bean rows are still "normal" if not maybe a smidge too close to each other.
Lemme think... Oh.... last year the kids were goofin' and put some of the BOS seeds we had for the chickens into the ground at the end of some rows. Those grew and were beautiful to look at. So this year, I got one small package of red sunflower seeds and one small package of some other "huge" type. Mike planted those, then went and got a few MORE packages and made an entire two ROWS out of them. They are all popping up.
I'm kinda worried as the three types of squash I got from Territorial aren't doing well... Mike's eyeballing the "large" space they were taking up (I at least was out there for THAT and reminded him how HUGE those grow!). I think he's going to try and replant those with starts from the local store (same store he got the great deal on the 20 tomato plants from!!). I dunno how many, if I'm not out there, he'll try and stick in!!!
He added some more pepper plants to the end of my carrot rows, deciding that since nothing was growing on those ends, it'd be an ok thing to do. GEEZ!!
Oh!! We also have pumpkins popping up everywhere from the ones we threw the cows last year after Halloween. He's transplanted a few of THOSE to the old chicken pen area to see what happens. He knows they won't be good till fall, but the cows and goats sure did love them last year so he figures we can grow them for them now.
The mans' gone NUTS! I just keep telling him, it's HIS garden, so if it ends up too crowded, that is NOT my fault!!
Usually, I map it all out and plant accordingly. This year, our garden is twice as big and I was too much into milking Maggie when it came time to do most of the garden planting. (We'd started before but lost some of it due to rain and had to plant later than expected due to the same rain for the rest). So I left him to it. "Do what you want", I said. I didn't think he'd go NUTS! His rows seem VERY close together to me.
He planted succession corn from Territorial and two of the types came up great, one didn't, so he replanted THAT last weekend and decided while he was at it and had "extra" seeds, to add two more rows!!
He planted the cukes and the watermelons VERY close to each other and I told him we're not going to be able to tell the vines apart and they're going to grow all together. He just shrugged. He added not TWO more tomato plants last weekend, but 20!! (Big Boy bought in a bundle) to an area we weren't planting... torn down chicken pen area. I gotta be honest, I'd thought six plants was enough this year. That was in addition to an entire row of seeds he put down just to see what happens, of yellow slicing tomatoes!
He put potatoes back in and actually only put three rows, whereas before we'd had seven.
Not two rows of snow peas when most didn't grow the first time 'round, but now it's FIVE rows of snow peas and they are all growing!
We thought we'd lost the Texas Sweet onions or were going to because of the rain, so we replanted some kinda GA sweet onion (not vidalias) and not only did we NOT lose the first set, the second set is doing well and he put some seeds in a third row for a whole other kinda sweet onion!
I take responsibilty for the second row of sweet onions here. ;D But not the third! At least the broccoli rows and green bean rows are still "normal" if not maybe a smidge too close to each other.
Lemme think... Oh.... last year the kids were goofin' and put some of the BOS seeds we had for the chickens into the ground at the end of some rows. Those grew and were beautiful to look at. So this year, I got one small package of red sunflower seeds and one small package of some other "huge" type. Mike planted those, then went and got a few MORE packages and made an entire two ROWS out of them. They are all popping up.
I'm kinda worried as the three types of squash I got from Territorial aren't doing well... Mike's eyeballing the "large" space they were taking up (I at least was out there for THAT and reminded him how HUGE those grow!). I think he's going to try and replant those with starts from the local store (same store he got the great deal on the 20 tomato plants from!!). I dunno how many, if I'm not out there, he'll try and stick in!!!
He added some more pepper plants to the end of my carrot rows, deciding that since nothing was growing on those ends, it'd be an ok thing to do. GEEZ!!
Oh!! We also have pumpkins popping up everywhere from the ones we threw the cows last year after Halloween. He's transplanted a few of THOSE to the old chicken pen area to see what happens. He knows they won't be good till fall, but the cows and goats sure did love them last year so he figures we can grow them for them now.
The mans' gone NUTS! I just keep telling him, it's HIS garden, so if it ends up too crowded, that is NOT my fault!!
(Like my potatoes.....) 
