While planting my starter plants and renewing soil in the pots I will plant them in I saw a Bald Eagle flying about 500 feet above me. I have started my 3rd garden at this location. I had planted 'greens' last winter and now providing me a big pot full every week. Have several kinds 2kinds of spinach,2x of kale, turnips, mustard, some Japanese cabbage, seeds started for this years tomatoes 6 kinds,5 kinds of peppers, yellow squash,zucchini, watermelon,cantaloupe,canary and casaba melon,cucumbers, Armenian cucumbers, luffas, everything open pollinated and or heirloom.the neighbors think it is fine if I expand to in front of their apartments. I also have some space at my sister's house and she asked the developers if it was ok to use the empty lot next to her. They have no plans to build on it this year. I will plant sweet corn, several kinds of field peas(white acre,purple hull, lady finger) some pole beans, butterbeans , peanuts, and some type of winter squash.I use azomite,colloidal phosphate, rock phosphate, sul-po-mag,gypsum, dolomite,earthworm castings,kelp ,greensand ,paramagnetic sand, mushroom compost, a mixture of 3 bat guanos, and a culture of several kinds of soil microrhyzae, algae,and other soil microbes, granite dust.I spay the plants as they bud out with a kelp tea which stimulates growth and toughens the stems to hold more of the flowers to fruit.I have also been planting more herbs this year and some of last years either reseeded or coming back. I made a case of quarts of tomato sauce last year and made about 15 bottles of cayenne pepper/cider vinegar sauce last year usually put up in old wine or whiskey bottles. I only had brocolli last year that seemed to be the thing desired to be eaten by bugs. I dusted with diatomaceous eath which kept the ants out (and in turn aphids).
All the trees are blooming, azaleas coming on, pecans and oaks are blooming. Allergies ,oh my!
All the trees are blooming, azaleas coming on, pecans and oaks are blooming. Allergies ,oh my!