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:
Good idea about the pots with the potatoes! :)
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