Sunday, June 21, 2009

Rain Rain Go Away

My garden is drowning. since Thursday we easily had 4" of rain today is Sunday. a The weeds are shooting up but whole areas of my garden is drowning . Walking out into the garden involved sinking in the mud and losing a shoe. If it ever dries out I'll be tilling in 20 % of it or so and re-planting. There are some plants taking full advantage of the swampy goo that used to be my garden. the cabbages are heading up . the peas are sprawling out . The beans are growing leafy canopies . The spinach is curling up and dying . The turnips , carrots, and beets are for all intents gone . I'll till that area under and replant if the night rains ever stop. I'm tempted to put on my swim suit and wade in and pull the weeds which I suspect are wild rice , cranberries and lillie pads . I put on my mud bogging boots and actually saw crawfish in between the rows. It's very obvious that I tilled in a couple of tons of manure . The standing water is absolutely foul filled with algae feasting It stinks worse than the manure ever dreamed of .

Sunday, June 14, 2009

It's in , well almost.

Final dimensions of the garden 110' X 30' . All the plants I started except for the few I was lucky enough to give away are in the ground . The cabbage is growing so fast it's scary . I guess the unseasonable cold weather is driving it . The broccoli is all dead wtf? I thought broccoli was a cole like the cabbage and would love the 60 degree temps also. The corn is spotty in the back I'll fill in with some more seeds this week to help block the sun and keep the weeds out. I created a 16' X 30 ' area out in the hay field to to take on 40 hubbard squash plants. I tilled the holy hell out of it and raked out as many of the roots as possible. the hubbards will be responsible with controlling their own weeds . I'm going for using the mower and hoe as my main weeding tools along with a thick leaf canopy . 3300 square feet is to much for little old me to crawl around pulling weeds.