May 04, 2017
It only took a few hot sunny days to turn the corn dark green. I didn't even know it wasn't supposed to be light green this time of year. Now it looks like I fertilized it with nitrogen. I've already started appreciating the shade in the garden, and my water cup by the faucet. I have a splitter on the faucet with a long hose attached to one side to water the garden, and a short 3' hose on the other so I can get cold water instantly without having to wait for the long hose to cool down..
The short hose, when proped on a cinder block, works great to rince lettuce and spinach and pre clean everything before it goes in the house. The long hose never gets rolled up becauseâÂÂ, as my son once told me, rolling it up 100% guarantees it will not be where you want it when you go to use it again. If you lay it down where you're done with it there's a 50% chance it will be half way to where you want it . Smart boy..
May 05, 2017
I guess I'm growing my own mulch now. The Creeping Jenny is supposed to be a ground cover but it's been so happy with all this rain that it's growing straight up. It's a foot tall and as thick as a hedge, so I'm grabbing it by the handful and laying it down. If I don't get any roots it may not re-root, but if it does I've got Roundup to fall back on. It's very hearty so it will probably grow up through the mulch. I may have only slowed it down a little. Shortly I'll have lettuce to mulch with..
It's growing faster than we can eat it. I wonder if I should plant another row since I still have half a pack of seeds. I've started leaving little piles of weeds around. Not good for a formal garden, but ok for a geezer garden patch. I seem to always put the weeds on an open piece of ground, and when I go to pick them up I look at the ground and think "That needs mulch" and drop them back down..
May 06, 2017
The mini greenhouses have done wonders on the zucchini. The plants have filled them up and have blossoms. I'll move them to the tomatoes now, but only at night, because the tomatoes have blossoms too. Having let the kale go to seed, there are lots of flowers on them, and pollinators buzzing around.They lured bees into the garden that might not have seen the few veggie flowers..
I'm confident I'll get them polinated now. There is frost predicted for tonight so I'll put my garden chairs over the zucchini and throw horse blankets over them. I've got the wire tunnels over the corn and tarps ready to go. Everything else gets buckets, bowls and garbage can lids..
