(This entry covers May 27 through June 7)
The following weekend, we hit Randazzo's for both flowers for our various homes and more veggies to finish up the family plot planting. Great selection and prices, but a total madhouse on a Sunday mid-morning! For various reasons we didn't get to the plot on Sunday, so Monday evening (after our Cardio-Boxing class) we headed over to finish up the planting. We got everything planted and ended up adding three more tomatoes (one Roma, two Big Rainbow), four cauliflower, four Brussels sprouts, nine sweet potatoes, four jalapeño peppers, three yellow wax beans, one watermelon, four more cucumber (the ones we had planted weren't faring very well), three chives, four Great Lakes head lettuce, four red leaf lettuce, four "unnamed" lettuce (had the red leaf tag but is definitely not red leaf lettuce -- we're hoping it's butter lettuce), four Swiss chard, four cabbages, several onion sets, and seeds for peas, Dragon beans, and a variety of carrots.
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| Fully planted. The whirlygigs are marking the cucumbers, since they're prone to being stepped on! |
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Wednesday my sister and I came back out to water and saw that the lettuce was practically gone. :( We planted some marigolds in among the lettuce, and then some flowers along the far side to offset the neighboring garden's bright orange snow fence. Then we talked to Mom about putting up a fence of our own, a project for the next weekend.
That Friday I came out and dug some trenches between the plant rows. Annabelle is very helpful in the garden, she's great at planting and watering, but at 3.5 years old hasn't quite figured out how not to step on the smallest plants. So I thought trenches might give her (and us, for that matter) a guideline for where it was safe to walk. Saturday Mom and I went out and I finished up the trenches, while she helped mound the dirt up around the plants. Sunday saw the four of us -- Mom, me, Jill and Annabelle -- at Home Depot, and then out to the garden to put up the fence.
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| First trenches dug |
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| Trenches finished, fence up, a few more marigolds planted |
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| The other half, trenched and fenced | | | |
Another good weekend of work, and hopefully now a rabbit-free garden!
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