garden update
because i had to flex my hours from commencement as well as tomorrow’s late work day, i took wednesday off. since it was a decent weather day and i had 1800 square feet to dig up, i went over to my community garden plot and got to work.
after five hours on wednesday and about four yesterday, it’s mostly put in. unfortunately, some of my tomatoes have already kicked the bucket. thank goodness we’re still early in the season and i can get more.
charlie requested more cucumbers, so i’ve got to put more of those in, and i’m waiting for sweet potatoes (!) to show up in the mail. i also ordered a few more tomatoes in the mail because i want a certain heirloom variety that you can’t find any old place, mostly to replace the ones that died and also to have a few more.
so, this year we’re going to have copious amounts of:
- tomatoes – big boys, early girls, celebration, cherry, green zebra
- peppers, hot, sweet, and boring
- cucumbers, eating and pickling
- green beans
- leeks
- kohlrabi
- onions
- carrots
- sweet corn
- popcorn (!)
- lettuce
- potatoes
- butternut squash
- summer squash
- another winter squash i can’t remember, heirloom variety
- pie pumpkins
- jackolantern pumpkins
- cinderella pumpkins
- cantaloupe
- watermelon
- loofah squash
- flowers
- more flowers
whew. the hugely unfortunate thing about this community garden is there is no water source, so i have to haul it in. hopefully i’ll be able to mulch it well enough that nothing dies.