Thank you
AC! I read a thread yesterday (I forget who suggested this but, thanks to
you too)!
I have not been able to garden outside for a while now, but I've got a nice backyard...until August...and I finally got motivated enough to do some this year.
It gets about 6 hours of real intense sunlight but will be getting more when I trim back some branches on the large trees surrounding it. The garden gets sun all day just not direct light all the time.
Soil is a mix of local compost (our city does a weekend where they supply it for $10 bucks a tractor shovel load, or it's free if you haul it yourself). To the clay like soil in the garden I added about 100lbs of compost, a few bags of sand, and 5 40qt bags of organic top soil from the nursery down the road.
As for feeding, right now they just get water. I need to find some plant food for them though, but I have never fed veggies, and
ORGANIC is key! Any ideas for me? I learned from my pops and he never uses any thing for feeding but is successful year upon year with large tomato harvests, corn, greens, etc, etc. I just recently got him into using a hot box and am about an inch away from getting him to construct a green house with me on their property.
Now for some pics:
Whole garden set up (nice rose bush the lady left who lived here last, I couldn't kill it)
Row of Peppers (I have a plant specifically for making mole, a jalapeno, purple bell pepper, red bell pepper, and a cayenne plant)
Basil (already in the garden) and the second pic is of herbs in need of new homes (spearmint, mint chocolate, rosemary, thyme, and chives) + Rottweiler hind quarters.
Tomato close up and the two rows of them (salad mix, grape, brandywine, beefsteak, roma, and I am blanking on the name of the other one but it is french and good for drying, Yum!)
Red potatoes and sweet yellow onions
I am waiting for my melons to show me signs of life, I've never had much luck with them though so we'll see. I have started some habaneros inside along with a few ghost chilies. I've also noticed while looking at these photos that I need to do some weeding. I was told that laying newspaper down in between rows keeps weeds away, we'll see. Right now I gotta get back to studying so come Thursday when schools done I will get on that weeding/mulching of the garden.
Everyone