I took this picture on Friday-- so a week ago-- and some of you may have seen it already, but this is how my garden looked at that time:
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It feels good to have gotten all the veggies in and I'm so excited about my three-sisters area. I'm sort of following this guide here.
Basically you plant corn and when the corn is 6 inches high, you plant peas or beans which climb up the corn and bind nitrogen into the soil. Then you plant a vine crop like a squash or a melon which shades the roots and helps keep the weeds down. Genius.
So I have corn, sugar snap peas, and then I'm going to do one mound of melon and two mounds of spaghetti squash.
After the week I had-- Monday and Tuesday clearing the ground and fenceline, Wednesday roto-tilling and sifting the soil (with help from Dougie and Anastasia), Thursday hauling three pick up trucks' worth of yard waste and logs by myself (but I got to use the new chainsaw!!), and then Friday planting it all...plus shooting 2 long weddings Friday and Saturday...when I bent down to tie my shoes on Sunday, I couldn't stand back up again. So I've been seeing a muscular therapist and am mending well but still in pain. Damn it. I still haven't learned to pace myself-- I'm either all in or...not.
Also, Anastasia wanted me to share her chicken coop plans:
As always-- click for large and legible.
How I threw my back out...or...the garden is done!
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Here are some of my garden shots:
Views from some 3rd floor windows:
My sunflowers are budding.
View down the long rail, I hope the railing gets swallowed up in vines by the end of July.
Mound of dahlia.
My blooming lavender.
Unruly garlic tops.
A sunny photo of my bushy cypress.
My Black Velvet Nasturtiums look more scarlet than chocolate brown.
The marigolds are big but haven't budded yet.
One of my bigger moonflowers. One of the vines has started to inch its way up my homemade tomato trellis.
Baby Sugar Baby
Scarlet Magic Tassels. They're super neat looking.
The brocs are also pretty big but budless.
This is the beet that came out of the ground today. I'll post that photo tomorrow.
The tigridia in action. You can see my Grandpa Ott's MG in the background of the first one.
Here's a close on some of Grandpa:
I need a macro lens.
Most recent photo- 7/5 - tomatoes flowered for the first time.
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