It's summer here, so I'm in the middle of planting.
This week is going to be: tomatoes (wapsipinicon), beans (snake), lettuce, and possibly leeks and carrots.
And, just on the subject of compost: I cannot sing it's praises enough. I had a couple of compost heaps that I made over winter and just left to degrade, and once the weather heated up, the crops growing in there went BOOM.
Corn, about two weeks after I put the seedlings in (grew the seedlings in seedling trays to about 10cm tall, then planted them out): and they're bigger now.
At this point in time, I'm dealing with way more growing things than I know how to deal with, and the usual issues of making sure everything has enough nutrients and water so the heat won't kill it off. Just planted out seedlings of pumpkins/melons, tomatoes, capiscums (bell peppers), and eggplant this morning, and have a bunch more to do in the coming week.
And otherwise I have to start working out how to eat zucchini. We have a lot of it. A LOT OF IT.
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This week is going to be: tomatoes (wapsipinicon), beans (snake), lettuce, and possibly leeks and carrots.
And, just on the subject of compost: I cannot sing it's praises enough. I had a couple of compost heaps that I made over winter and just left to degrade, and once the weather heated up, the crops growing in there went BOOM.
Corn, about two weeks after I put the seedlings in (grew the seedlings in seedling trays to about 10cm tall, then planted them out): and they're bigger now.
At this point in time, I'm dealing with way more growing things than I know how to deal with, and the usual issues of making sure everything has enough nutrients and water so the heat won't kill it off. Just planted out seedlings of pumpkins/melons, tomatoes, capiscums (bell peppers), and eggplant this morning, and have a bunch more to do in the coming week.
And otherwise I have to start working out how to eat zucchini. We have a lot of it. A LOT OF IT.