Do you take this garden? I DO!

So to put it mildly, gardening is like a marriage, in sickness and in health till death do us part. I am not feeling too well this week BUT the 2 hours of hard work I put into my garden today felt good...and I am hoping I got a little sun on my pasty self too.


I finally prepped the tomato "run" that is what I am gonna call it..that or tomato alley. It was a rambling mass of weeds and grass (what little we have seemed to congregate right where I wanted to plant my 'maters.





Here is a nice before shot (to the right) and hey gimme a break "they" did say throw "everything on the lasagna compost pile...so lawn chairs and rogue garden tools apply right? Actually my loving husband was mowing the lawn and this is all the stuff he found int he grass....I know I know...


To the left is the finished product of today's endeavour and most of my tomatoes are planted too. Yay me... well My husband helped out a lot and my oldest pretended to help and my youngest tried to kill all the plants..but fun was had by all. Then as if if by divine intervention, it rained:) Dear God, My water bill thanks you. Honestly though the Lord could not have blessed us with a more perfect Easter Sunday;)


So the run down, 2 San Marzano tomato plants, 2 Romas, 3 Brandywine, 4 Mortgage Lifters, 2 Rutger tomatoes, 2 cherries, and 2 grapes. I also planted my burpless cucumber near the trellis. We prepped the bean area and I should be planting 3 types of pole beans tomorrow, mostly green beans and the rest are dry beans. By next weekend a whole bunch of everything is due to go in the dirt so Bed one will be chock full of goodness and succession planting in bed 2/3 will start as well. Bed 4 will keep on cooking I-talian style...(lame I know....lasagna ~ Italian..)



Thanks again to my wonderful other half, I now have grass in my compost bin, now I need a pitch fork REALLY badly...so I am gonna have to break down and get one, perhaps I should not leave it in the grass/weeds.... I am so bad. I will say I did pick up all my tools and put them in the shed today, next week maybe I will wash them off first. Baby steps.


I have decided to grow my corn after all, despite the distinct possibility that I will merely be feeding stinkbugs...boo. So i think I will see if I can get any growth in bed 4 (the I-talian bed) since it is pretty well mounded already and we'll grow squash around the base and beans as well. I am planting pumpkins over by the sunflowers. So these are the last two bed areas to work this year. I am super excited to report that I did make a "soapicidal" spray with fels naptha soap to hopefully thwart whatever evil beasty is gnawing on my leafy greens..bad bug bad. Next week will warrant a trip to the common market for some essential mint oils, for the stinkbugs.


The soap spray was easy to make, I shaved of a couple good size slivers of fels naptha which I already have on hand because I make my own laundry detergent (withhold your awe...really...LOL...now ask me how far behind on laundry I am )...back to the soap, put those slivers in a spray bottle with some hot water and let it dissolve a bit then fill the bottle up with cool water and commence spraying. We will see if it really works. (insert evil maniacal laugh)


Here is pic of some of my peas and my cuke I planted today. he is the little guy to the left of the nearest pea plant on the trellis. Don't be cruel, every one thinks their baby is the cutest...my garden is the bomb (well it look like it was bombed...) Ah well, we all go through our awkward teenage years..that is just merely where my garden is at the moment, she will be gorgeous in a another week or so, I can feel it.











Happy growing:)