I’m giving more responsibility to the kids this year, to get the spring planting done. We are the latest we’ve ever been with the planting. But we had frost warnings as late as earlier this week! Crazy! I really hope our warm autumn weather lasts well into September, or we may not see much this year. It’s tough when you have such a short growing season; I can’t imagine how scarce it must be in even colder climates as Canada.
We’re working on enlarging the garden beds. I think I’m only going to get one bed enlarged, due to time constraints.
Those old perimeter boards are 150 years old. We got them from the attic floor. They worked really well for a few years, but now they are full of ants and are going to the burn pile.
We weeded the other bed.
We only had enough home-grown compost for one large bed. I try to add compost every other year. I may grow clover or rye in the other bed, after the harvest is over, to replenish the soil. I’m going to write a post about how to enrich your soil for vegetable gardening, in the near future.
May 23, 2009 at 10:59 am
Looking good. I just wish I could grow things in my own garden but I don’t have the time nor the talent. I pretty much kill everything off even a cactus and those things are supposed to infallible so I’m told. One of my friend had a garden for a few years before and I was always over there getting vegetables because she had an ample supply of them.