About Beth
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I got my garden plot over the weekend, and staked it out with string: four 4'x25' beds that I plan to pack full of vegetation, with narrow walkways in between.
Today I planted my cold-weather plants (at least I hope they're all cold-weather plants!): collard greens, broccoli, swiss chard, "mixed lettuce", parsley, and arugula.
Anyhow, I hope the deer leave me some.
Another gardener advised me that since I'm at the South (downhill) end, I might want to dig out my walkways to raise the plant beds: the water flows downhill into the southern gardens, and then the soil there is extra dense because all the sediment has been washing downhill over the years. So on the next nice, sunny, dry day I'm going to start digging out around my beds. Today was a miserable, cold, wet, rainy day. I was determined to plant my greens anyway (I hear salad greens LOVE nasty weather) and of course I got really muddy in the process.
Total investment in the garden so far:
$25 on salad green seedlings
$12 for stakes and string to mark out the beds
$7 on a trowel, a cultivator, and a pair of gloves
15 minutes staking out the plot
1 hour planting salad greens
Also, $22 on seed packets I haven't planted yet, and $12 for some herbs I'm keeping in my window box (some of these will later go in the garden).
Today I planted my cold-weather plants (at least I hope they're all cold-weather plants!): collard greens, broccoli, swiss chard, "mixed lettuce", parsley, and arugula.
Anyhow, I hope the deer leave me some.
Another gardener advised me that since I'm at the South (downhill) end, I might want to dig out my walkways to raise the plant beds: the water flows downhill into the southern gardens, and then the soil there is extra dense because all the sediment has been washing downhill over the years. So on the next nice, sunny, dry day I'm going to start digging out around my beds. Today was a miserable, cold, wet, rainy day. I was determined to plant my greens anyway (I hear salad greens LOVE nasty weather) and of course I got really muddy in the process.
Total investment in the garden so far:
$25 on salad green seedlings
$12 for stakes and string to mark out the beds
$7 on a trowel, a cultivator, and a pair of gloves
15 minutes staking out the plot
1 hour planting salad greens
Also, $22 on seed packets I haven't planted yet, and $12 for some herbs I'm keeping in my window box (some of these will later go in the garden).
To garden by Beth on
2005-05-03.