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Tomatoes Planted – 3/20/24

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I bought 4 6-packs of tomato plants from D&L in McKinney for $3.99 each. Varieties: Celebrity, Cherokee Purple, Red Cherry Large, and Yellow Pear. I took one plant from each pack and planted them in the front raised beds. (bed #4 and 6).

We planted 2 bunches of onions about 3 weeks ago. They are growing well now and look healthy. Bed #3 has come from together. I’ve started moving the soil out of the bed to prep rebuilding it. I also made good progress on the fence around the front yard. I need to build another gate and a 15′ section then it will be complete. The comfrey I planted several years ago and cut down every year since is back again as a huge plant! I have piles of cardboard sitting out waiting for me to line the whole yard and fill with wood chips.

Hugelkulture Bed Update

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This is year number 2 for the hugelkulture bed experiment. It still needs soil added to some areas where wood is sticking out. I have a lot of beans and melons planted. Most excited to see how the melons do!

  • hugelkulture bed looking to the east
  • hugelkulture bed looking to the west
  • comfrey has grown too tall and is falling over, surrounded by beans
  • melons planted on hugelkulture bed starting to grow quickly
  • more melons
  • beans
  • melons and weeds
  • melons and garlic
  • melon
  • melon, garlic, asparagus
  • melons
  • beans

Vegetable Garden Update May 3, 2019

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  • snap peas
  • comfrey
  • raised bed
  • raised bed

Sugar snap peas are producing lots of pods, but are also getting eaten by a caterpillars that I haven’t found.  I’m debating if I should spray them with BT or now.  The comfrey plants are getting huge.  Too big for my small raised beds, so I need to make a decision about where to relocate them.  My tomatoes, peppers, beans, cantaloupe, and watermelon are all doing OK, but don’t seem to be growing fast.  

Snap Peas and Tiny Fruits – April 22, 2019

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Plants are growing at a very fast pace right now.  I finally have some sugar snap peas to harvest, but just a handful so far.  And 2 strawberries!  They were delicious.  Aiden raced me out to the garden to pick snap peas, he loves them!

  • Sugar Snap Pea
  • Aiden Enthusiastically Picks Fresh Snap Peas
  • My 6 raised beds
  • Potato plants in stack of tires
  • Comfrey Flowers
  • Onions are getting fat
  • A few tomatoes are forming
  • More tomatoes
  • Blackberry blooms
  • Blackberry blooms
  • A few peaches have formed
  • More plackberry flowers
  • More peaches

Planted Broccoli, Brussels, Spinach 8/15/2018

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I planted from seed 8 broccoli, 4 brussels sprouts, and 16 spinach today.

UPDATE 8/29/2018:  none of these seeds sprouted.  It was either too hot, or I let it get too dry.  I re-seeded today, and will try to keep the bed covered from the sun for most of the day.

Comfrey Slips and Crowns Planted 8/6/2018

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I ordered 12 slips and 3 crowns of Russian Comfrey – Bocking 14 from Marsh Creek Farmstead.  They arrived today so I put them in the ground.  I placed the crowns in my raised beds, and the slips in between my new fruit trees.  The bocking 14 variety doesn’t go to seed so it doesn’t spread and take over like the normal variety does.  This plant is known as a mineral miner: the roots go very deep in the soil and the leaves are packed with lots of nutrients.  It is a good plant to use for composting material, as those valuable nutrients will be in the compost.