Well as I toured my garden today I found that all of my potatoes are successfully growing!!! So much for my unconventional ways. We got 0.2 inches of rain last night. The weather channel website said that today was a high need to water plants/grass day. NO! I was okay with the moisture that came last night and today while at the grocery store, it started pouring and it lasted a while. I haven't checked the rain guage later today, but I'm pretty sure we got another 0.5 in that downpour. My cereal boxes got pretty wet from car to house. I'm still grateful for the rain regardless of the inconvenience with groceries.
Someone at the grocery store told me to be careful because there was "black ice" under the rain. Naturally with my garden success so far, I was concerned, but only a little. People hydroplane when oil from the road floats on top of water at the beginning of a rainstorm and I think that was her problem. It was 45 degrees F at the time. We actually got a bit of thunder with our rain this time too! I like that!
The bad news is that I found the reason for my gaps in the black-eyed peas. I've got insects of some sort eating the leaves. I need to find some way to stop that. I'm not opposed to chemical pesticides, but I would like to try a natural remedy first if possible. I've pinned some stuff on Pinterest so I'll do some work with that tomorrow. I also subscribe to Mother Earth News magazine. It is published in Kansas and I am all about supporting this great state if I can. I saw some natural pesticides in there too, so tomorrow, the bugs will flee from my garden area. They can live somewhere else. If I find something that works, I will post about it and credit the source of information.
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Monday, April 16, 2012
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Love the Rain!
My garden has been loving the sun, but it also loves the rain!
Here is a spinach plant surfacing. They look different than I had imagined them, but I remember from last years plants this grass-like seedling.
My onions all in a row look pretty good. The pics are kind of bad, but I'm happy with the true results.
Celery was our experiment. When I chopped up my celery for eating, I saved the stump of it and cut the tops of it evenly. I let it soak on the counter while I awaited my garden area to be made ready. We had to borrow a rototiller. Ours is a tiny one that we used for little garden boxes and we have a garden space this year. As soon as the soil was tilled, I put this in at the end of the onion/potato row. I just covered the bottom of the stump with dirt and left the top and the growth above ground. The stump part is now withering and the new growth is looking pretty good!
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Here are my black-eyed peas. Coming up nicely in a row. I think I will be thinning them as early as next week. I will remove the string that guided my row in the next day or so. I left the string there so that I could get a feel for where to look for sprouts.
This is my first year for lettuce and this is the Bibb variety. I didn't know what to look for as they sprouted and my string was a great tool for me. I now see many similar sprouts along my string. We were a little careless with these seeds as they were so tiny! It said to plant the seeds every 2 inches to start, but I had a hard time getting just 1 seed in each hole, so my sprouts are in clusters like this. I can thin them later. On the bottom of the picture you can see a weed with a different shade of green. I will pull these when I thin the lettuce plants out. I'm afraid to do it too soon and grab seeds and sprouts with the roots.
I plan to hoe between rows to keep the weeds down. My husband thinks we should use the little rototiller between the rows, but I don't trust myself to go in a straight line. We'll see!
It rained just over 1/2 inch last night and we checked our rain guage this morning. Very pleased to say that it is supposed to rain on and off for the rest of the week. I don't mind watering, but this kind of water is the best for the plants.
Here is a spinach plant surfacing. They look different than I had imagined them, but I remember from last years plants this grass-like seedling.
My onions all in a row look pretty good. The pics are kind of bad, but I'm happy with the true results.
Celery was our experiment. When I chopped up my celery for eating, I saved the stump of it and cut the tops of it evenly. I let it soak on the counter while I awaited my garden area to be made ready. We had to borrow a rototiller. Ours is a tiny one that we used for little garden boxes and we have a garden space this year. As soon as the soil was tilled, I put this in at the end of the onion/potato row. I just covered the bottom of the stump with dirt and left the top and the growth above ground. The stump part is now withering and the new growth is looking pretty good!
Here are my black-eyed peas. Coming up nicely in a row. I think I will be thinning them as early as next week. I will remove the string that guided my row in the next day or so. I left the string there so that I could get a feel for where to look for sprouts.
This is my first year for lettuce and this is the Bibb variety. I didn't know what to look for as they sprouted and my string was a great tool for me. I now see many similar sprouts along my string. We were a little careless with these seeds as they were so tiny! It said to plant the seeds every 2 inches to start, but I had a hard time getting just 1 seed in each hole, so my sprouts are in clusters like this. I can thin them later. On the bottom of the picture you can see a weed with a different shade of green. I will pull these when I thin the lettuce plants out. I'm afraid to do it too soon and grab seeds and sprouts with the roots.
I plan to hoe between rows to keep the weeds down. My husband thinks we should use the little rototiller between the rows, but I don't trust myself to go in a straight line. We'll see!
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