Wednesday, June 23, 2010
In the beginning...
This is the new layout! From the top left: Peas (just planted), rainbow tomatoes, sweet baby tomatoes, black krim tomatoes. 2nd row left: 3 leeks, broccoli, broccoli, 2 corn. 3rd row left: sweet banana pepper, jalapeno, green bell pepper, 2 corn. 4th row left: Rosemary, basil, cilantro (just planted), red oak and some other kind of lettuce (the name escapes me....)
This photo was taken around the beginning of May.
This photo was taken around the beginning of May.
Everyone's transplanted
To say that a lot has happened since the last post would be an understatement. Without making anyone reading a gardening blog feel awkward, I will just say that instead of two Square Foot Gardens, there is now only one being written about. 'Nuff said.
I will say, though, that if there is one thing I have learned about this process, it is that almost anything will survive a transplant if you do it well enough. When we first created our SFG boxes, we put all of our seedlings into the dirt praying that they would take to their new environment and grow. And they did. Wonderfully. And then came The Great Move, in which everything (that hadn't been eaten by deer/rabbits in our neglect and absence of gardening) was pulled out of the dirt and put into a large cardboard box. Corn was pulled out almost 4 inches high, baby tomato plants were temporarily planted in an Amazon box, lettuce was laid (dirt still attached to the roots and all) in the big box, etc. Knowing that Mel's Mix of soil=GOLD, we hauled everything we could shovel into the back of the Forester and split it half and half. The frames were easy to strap to the luggage rack, but the lattice was trickier. One box went to Kathryn's house, the other came with me to mine. The plants were separated and then planted (again) in hopes that they took and began to grow.
I have not seen Kathryn's SFG box lately, but mine has been doing great. With the rains of WNC, I have only had to manually water the garden once or twice, and the vermiculite does some awesome things with regards to water retention.
I added some new plants to mine: Peas (the original peas were all eaten by animals), Rosemary, Cilantro, Sweet pepper plant, green bell pepper, and a jalapeno plant.
I will say, though, that if there is one thing I have learned about this process, it is that almost anything will survive a transplant if you do it well enough. When we first created our SFG boxes, we put all of our seedlings into the dirt praying that they would take to their new environment and grow. And they did. Wonderfully. And then came The Great Move, in which everything (that hadn't been eaten by deer/rabbits in our neglect and absence of gardening) was pulled out of the dirt and put into a large cardboard box. Corn was pulled out almost 4 inches high, baby tomato plants were temporarily planted in an Amazon box, lettuce was laid (dirt still attached to the roots and all) in the big box, etc. Knowing that Mel's Mix of soil=GOLD, we hauled everything we could shovel into the back of the Forester and split it half and half. The frames were easy to strap to the luggage rack, but the lattice was trickier. One box went to Kathryn's house, the other came with me to mine. The plants were separated and then planted (again) in hopes that they took and began to grow.
I have not seen Kathryn's SFG box lately, but mine has been doing great. With the rains of WNC, I have only had to manually water the garden once or twice, and the vermiculite does some awesome things with regards to water retention.
I added some new plants to mine: Peas (the original peas were all eaten by animals), Rosemary, Cilantro, Sweet pepper plant, green bell pepper, and a jalapeno plant.
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