Alloway Creek Herb Farm
Honey always says, “A short pencil is better than a long memory!” He’s right. But what happens when your pencil marks fade???
The rain has finally stopped for a little while and I made it out to the garden very early this morning (6:00-cows & chicks, 6:30-garden) before the heat of the day settles in. Although it seems as if it may be a rather pleasant sunny day with less humidity….none the less, I got all my outside work done by 10:30 AM and now I’m faced with a mountain of cleaning to do inside. Yuck! I’d much rather be outside playing in the dirt.
I have some important memory notes to jot to myself about the garden. I wish I could actually make a graph on here….but that’s a bit too challenging for me even if I could. So, I have my trusty paper and pencil at hand. But, come next year, I’ll have lost it and just throw it all to the wind and start from scratch!
1. I’m not pleased with the seeds that I purchased from Territorial Seed Co. They did not germinate well.
2. I’m mostly pleased with the veggie seeds that I bought from Cook’s Garden last year. They germinate well and the seeds that I saved germinated this year very very well.
3. Mama Lima’s did not germinate….only 3 came up. I replanted that bed with 3/4 row of Henderson Lima (saved seed), 1/8 Emerite Pole Beans (saved seed) and 1/8 Provider Bush Beans. I still need to run some twine. The rest of that bed is Golden Bantam Sweet Corn (I think 3 rows).
4. Henderson & Emerite seeds I saved germinated very very well. I put in posts and ran twine for them.
5. My tags faded in the sun. I’m not sure anymore which tomatoes are which. I think that the two in the center of the rear narrow bed are the Heirloom that Jennifer gave me last yr. Other than that I’ll have to wait until they produce and then I’ll know. They are either Heirloom Brandywine, Compost Cherry, or Compost Plum. (seeds that came from plants out of the compost!) BUT all of the tomatoes are doing amazing! I tied again. They are at least 18″ tall.
6. The Fordhook Lima and Jackson Wonder Lima from Organica came up very well. Their packets have a nice little chart on them.
7. The lace bugs (?) are eating my eggplants leaves up! Have sprayed with Hot Pepper Spray and Neem Mix. Hopefully they will stop and not kill my plants.
8. The raspberry plants are doing great!
9. Need to pull the Purple Mustard….it’s very hot and tangy…not sweet like last yrs…even though it’s the same seed and variety. ???
10. Spinach has gone to seed.
11. Emerite Pole Beans from Cook’s Garden do very well. Saved seeds germinated very very well.
12. Reseeded some Okra….half germinated.
13. Use Oil Pencil for tags next yr…not sharpie.
14. Put in 3 hills of Summer Squash among the corn as well as Cuc’s maybe 4-5 hills..???
15. Cut Garlic Scapes and will eat for lunch!
16. Seeds of Change herb seeds all germinated well-indoors and outdoors!
17. Grape plants are growing like crazy. Blueberries finally got chicken wire cages….but rabbits ate most of the leaves off of two…one is full of leaves and one looks like it might die.
18. Finally finished planting all the Petunias.
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