2015 Garden activities

May 2015

Lots has happened in the garden since I last updated this page. Busy at work and Adrian has been doing the garden work.

• Planting now
  • Peppers from greenhouse
  • Tomatoes
  • Corn
  • Plant in late May
    • Cantaloupe and Watermelon
    • Okra – saved seed of Alabama Red
• Planted early this year
  • Fruit trees in small garden. Two cherry and two apricot. Will plant cantelope ‘under’ these small trees
• Mow fallow section and use clippings for mulch. We planted 1/4 of garden in clover and annual rye. The annual rye makes for good (weed seed free) mulch. Mow twice per week. We can mulch one row per cutting.
• Compost
  • Buy truckload from nursery for mulch
  • Turn current piles with chicken manure and use best to mulch Tomatoes and Peppers.
• Harvest
  • Currently getting nice 1-2 pounds of asparagus very other day.
  • Strawberries will begin next week or on May 6th or so
  • Blackberries in late May into June
  • Shallot and Garlic will be ready in Late May early June. I hope to not let the Garlic get too ripe (cloves begin splitting).

January 2015

Not much work needed in January.

• Compost – turn piles and add shredded okra stalks.
• Mow fallow section and use grass clippings to mulch garlic and shallot.