Garden Progress

The Perennial portion of the garden was cultivated. Fermize tilled and weeded and mulched. It really looks well situated to produce nice strawberries next year.

Even the Arapaho blackberries are looking like they need a trellis. 80% of these have survived transplanting. We have a shortage of mulch. The blackberries could use 4-6 inches for complete weed prevention. No digging should be done around the blackberries. Cutting their roots will induce more plants to emerge and spacing is good now.

Where garlic was harvested, Adrian planted Cilantro. We had several plants in the other garden go to seed. The seed was collected and sown in the prepared bed. He used a rake to plant the seed. It will emerge soon if we keep it wet.

The Bodacious sweet corn is looking very nice. I read it is ready 50 days after the silks come. That means it will harvest around August 10th. Each stalk has two ears.

Volunteer interns from Exencial fertilized and were first to hill the corn. I wish they could see it.

Also notice the melon patch is covering the area with vines. If you look closer you might see a few melons. Under their leaves and with a close-up look, you’d see lots of cantaloupe! I think the one in the picture is Burpee’s Hybrid PMT. There are at least 30 melons of just the PMT. The Hearts of Gold variety is just behind with smaller melons but equal numbers. The Crimson Sweet watermelon, which germinated poorly, has fewer melons, but is producing.

Also notice that we deeply mulched the peppers (foreground of picture) with nice 1 year old compost. We did this to the tomatillos too hoping they will set roots from sprawling/trailing branches. It seems like a lot of nitrogen but both plants are heavy feeders during summer and can produce for the next two months.

In the next few weeks we will be harvesting tomatoes. Some of the Big Beef and Celebrity are heavily laden with fruit. More staking is needed (eeee!).

We will ship 5 small boxes of potatoes, squash, pepper, tomatoes and tomatillos today to Other Options. Double eeeee!