For some reason, I think I may be in trouble gardening-wise this year. In an effort to make our front patio sitting area more level, we moved some of the dirt into my raised veggie beds (because I have a really bad habit of taking from it to pot stuff). Since it was kind of an impromptu thing, I didn’t clear out all of the rocks that I should have and now I’m worried I just introduced weeds into my beds.
Two of my artichoke plants are doing well, as well as the horseradish. All of the bulbs I’ve planted seem to be doing well as long as we don’t get more strong winds that blow the petals off of the flowers. Totally ruined my plan of having one planter of just black and white tulips.
Composting isn’t going as smoothly as it did last year. Too much nitrogen no matter how much carbon material I add. My laziness in the fall has caused what I think are 20 zucchini seedlings to grow. Instead of putting all of the spent zucchini into the compost, I just turned some over into the soil…thinking it would compost straight into the dirt. If I’m lucky, there will also be some crook neck and patty pans in there, because 20 zucchini plants is way too many. I could just pull them all up and plant the seedlings I’ve started, but I kind of like that these grew on their own and that I have back-ups in case we get another frost before the end of May.
Had to put fencing around the veggie beds because Penelope Envelope decided she likes nibbling on cabbage. I don’t like the way it looks (fencing around my veggie beds) but it should prevent her from boxing with any of my eggplants like she did last year. Besides, we got the green plastic net fencing so I’m hoping that the sugar snap peas will use that for support
–How cute. My niece just called me to ask how to cook chicken adobo. She’s so darling. I love her. Wish I could see her more–
instead of the tomato cages I normally use.
My next big garden project will be what to do about my cheapy greenhouse. I joke around that it’s not spring yet until it falls over in a windstorm, causing damage to any seedlings I’ve started or at least causing them to fall out of their labeled containers. That’s the worst part, having unknown seeds to plant because I like to arrange the plants in my beds according to what grows well together.
I’ll keep you posted. :\