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got my planter box sorted out. Ish.
May. 23rd, 2022 10:21 amI really wish I'd remembered to pre-order from the tomato sale. They were out of two of the ones I wanted (Matt's Wild Cherry, Amy's Apricot). I got Lemon Drop and Black Cherry instead - and also Cosmonaut Volkov and Ethel Watkins' Best, both of which I've grown before and loved. I also picked up two hot peppers (Long Cayenne and Maleguetinha) and two basil plants - and then they handed me a free locally-bred golden beefsteak tomato on my way out the door in honor of the 50th anniversary of the community garden that the tomato sale supports.
(This threw me off a bit. I have six buckets. I had seven plants that I wanted to put in buckets. Whoops. The Maleguetinha pepper will just have to live in the dirt like a peasant...)
I also finally ordered the dirt for my 4x4 planter bed, and a wheelbarrow to get it from point A to point B. I am a terrible wheelbarrow driver... fortunately there's no licensing needed. :) It turned out I'd made a terrible math error when ordering: 4' x 4' x 4" is 5.333 cubic feet, not 4 cubic feet, because 4" is 1/3 of a foot, not 1/4 of a foot. Whooooops. Fortunately I had some soil in the bed already from last year and some other planters I could clean out. Right now it has the one pepper and the basils living in it and I'm not sure what else to put in... I have seeds for carrots (probably safe to put in), radishes (might get one planting), bush (green) beans, pole beans (a variety for dry beans), ground cherries, cowpeas, sunflowers, cucumbers, maybe delicata squash... aaaaargh, too many prices and values...
based on what we eat: one planting of radishes, start ground cherry seedlings or squash indoors and turn that space over to them, and also bush beans and the cowpeas seems like a pretty good bet. And maybe a couple sunflowers smack in the middle, just because...
also I made an impulse purchase of a mushroom log. It will apparently grown 2-4 crops of oyster mushrooms if put in a shady spot and left to get rained on? that is my kind of gardening... and I have to admit part of my motivation for it was non-food-related: Daughter finds fungus fascinating. She has gone out to commune with the log a few times and I hope she continues to enjoy it.
(This threw me off a bit. I have six buckets. I had seven plants that I wanted to put in buckets. Whoops. The Maleguetinha pepper will just have to live in the dirt like a peasant...)
I also finally ordered the dirt for my 4x4 planter bed, and a wheelbarrow to get it from point A to point B. I am a terrible wheelbarrow driver... fortunately there's no licensing needed. :) It turned out I'd made a terrible math error when ordering: 4' x 4' x 4" is 5.333 cubic feet, not 4 cubic feet, because 4" is 1/3 of a foot, not 1/4 of a foot. Whooooops. Fortunately I had some soil in the bed already from last year and some other planters I could clean out. Right now it has the one pepper and the basils living in it and I'm not sure what else to put in... I have seeds for carrots (probably safe to put in), radishes (might get one planting), bush (green) beans, pole beans (a variety for dry beans), ground cherries, cowpeas, sunflowers, cucumbers, maybe delicata squash... aaaaargh, too many prices and values...
based on what we eat: one planting of radishes, start ground cherry seedlings or squash indoors and turn that space over to them, and also bush beans and the cowpeas seems like a pretty good bet. And maybe a couple sunflowers smack in the middle, just because...
also I made an impulse purchase of a mushroom log. It will apparently grown 2-4 crops of oyster mushrooms if put in a shady spot and left to get rained on? that is my kind of gardening... and I have to admit part of my motivation for it was non-food-related: Daughter finds fungus fascinating. She has gone out to commune with the log a few times and I hope she continues to enjoy it.
