Dana's Garden

So here’s a quick update – I realize that I ramble sometimes and people ain’t got all day…

Sunday:

• Went back and built the pea trellis I’d mentioned (used old tree branches as posts, and twine).  The posts were leaning towards each other and the ground was kind of soft, so I used two little statues I had (a turtle and a frog) to hold them up.  (I feel like MacGyver sometimes except only maybe half the things I try go right. )  Planted two rows of peas, to climb up each side of the trellis (probably about 100 seeds).  Also built bunny fences around my raised beds and laid down more cardboard between rows for a walking path/weed barrier.

Monday:

• Went to transplant some broccoli and lettuce into the raised beds.  Epic fail.  Next time I’ll ignore the articles that say to start these indoors and just sow the seeds right into the ground.  Sowed some rows of broccoli and lettuce, as you may have guessed.  May be too late in the season to be planting that stuff since they tend to like cool weather, but lesson learned – I can at least grow them in a fall crop.
• Noticed little green strawberries on the strawberry plants.

Today:

• Was fortunately keeping up with my daily weather look-see and noticed the Frost Advisory for Virginia for tonight (mid- to low-thirties, yikes).  Remembered old bed sheets I could sacrifice as plant covers and took those over to blanket all plants and seedlings.  (Not sure if the frost will kill prevent seeds from germinating?  I didn’t have enough sheets to cover everything but I guess at least I can always sow new seeds if they don’t come up in another couple weeks.)

• Many more carrots coming up now.  Think the seeds just take longer to germinate.
• Another zucchini plant just popped out.
• I *think* I see corn coming up already but feel like that’s way too quick – maybe I am just seeing really nice-looking weeds?

More to come!  Hopefully tomorrow I can go out and start planting some tomatoes!  And start up another row for peppers and such.

Bon soir,

Dana