It was hot today, but the humidity was low compared to the last few days, so we finished putting in the last three vegetable beds. (insert Happy Dance here)
I planted the zucchini and squash seeds from Cristina in them … one bed each. I’ll have to figure out something for those squash to climb on if they grow well for me.
In the third bed, I planted buckwheat. I’ve never planted buckwheat before but I’ve read so many good things about it that I thought I’d better give it a try. When anything else opens up, I’ll put it in there too. I also bought some rye seed for overwintering. Hopefully all this will make my soil good and friable in the not too distant future.
I miscalculated on where all of the vegetable beds were to go. Actually, I didn’t calculate at all … just drew up the plan in January. It looked reasonable to me! ;) Now that all the beds I planned on are in place, I’ve discovered that there’s room for another row of them … five in all. One is already made and has been holding potted perennials since last fall (I didn’t have time to get them in the ground). I’m not even going to think about building them at the moment. I need to get at the flowerbeds to be built around the deck first. But it would be nice to have them in the fall so I can use some for my winter gardening. Plus it would give me a few extra so that rotating crops would be easy peasy. Don’t know if we’ll manage to get them done, but it’s nice to dream about.
Photos later.
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Comments
HazelJ wrote:
Congratulations on getting the raised beds in, sounds like they’ll make gardening much easier!
This is my second year using buckwheat for cover – the only trick I’ve noticed so far is to watch when it flowers and make sure you cut it/work it in before it sets seeds. Some of the plants must have been further along than I thought last year and I have some extra buckwheat weeds in some beds now. (That being said it’s much, much, much easier to pull than any of the other weeds I deal with.)
Posted on 25 Jun 12 (11 months ago)
HollyBee wrote:
@HazelJ – Thanks ! I have an older Rodale book ‘Improving Your Soil’ and it has given me the courage to try the buckwheat. Both you and my friend Carole (you met her last year? or the year before?) have had the same self-seeding problem, so I’m going to learn from that, I hope. At the first sign of a flower, I’m going to cut it ! :)
By the way … does that ‘at’ symbol really work ?
Posted on 25 Jun 12 (11 months ago)
HazelJ wrote:
The “@” doesn’t work on folia the same way it would on twitter, but it does make it easier to spot changes in replies if you’ve written more than one in the same “add comment”. I think I started using it on folia because that’s what everyone else was doing. (And no, if everyone jumped off I cliff, I wouldn’t follow them! ;) )
I should add “do as I say, not as I do” to my buckwheat advice. I went out today and mine is flowering. I decided to leave it in favour of attacking the quack grass, creeping charlie, and assorted annual weeds. I suppose I’ll be pulling buckwheat forever! I do like kasha though, so maybe I can manage to harvest the seeds, hull, crack and toast them and cook them up.
Posted on 26 Jun 12 (11 months ago)
HollyBee wrote:
@HazelJ – :D
Posted on 26 Jun 12 (11 months ago)
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