Monday, July 9, 2012

Everything is planted in the garden and ready to go.

The garden starts with tomatoes, next green/red/carnival peppers, next zucchini, next cantaloupe and watermelon, next peas, next green beans, and finally blue potatoes.

The potatoes needed to be planted at a 15" depth.  With this clay, there was no way I was getting them down that far.  I decided to use the big pots to help.  I cut out the bottom of the pot, 10" pot, dug down a hole as far as I could, put the loose dirt back in the hole, added a little mound of dirt on top, and finally set the pot on top of the soil.  This should give me my 15".

So far it has worked.  I have new sprouts occasionally.  I still, today, have not had any flowers to know they are ready to be harvested.  I do have one potato that is peaking through.  




The peas were the first thing to be "harvested".  I say this loosely because I think I had a total of six peas before the plants died.  They were really good.

The pea plants died.  We had tons of rain and then no more rain and I may not have watered them as much as they were used to.  I will try and plant more peas next year.  The ones that we did get to eat were wonderful! 

1 comment:

Cooking Creation said...

Good idea about the pots with the potatoes! :)