| northwest |
|
A |
B |
C |
D |
| 1 |
Peas (8) S-A |
San Marzano Plum Tomato (1) P-B |
Yellow Pair
Health Kick Tomato(1) P-B 6/9 |
Amish Paste Plum Tomato (1) P-A |
| 2 |
Carrots (16) S-A
4-5 bean seeds |
Bush Beans (1) P-? |
Spinach (9) P-? |
Beets (16) P-? |
| 3 |
Radishes (16) P-? |
Cucumbers (2) P-? removed 6/27 |
Egg Plant (1) P-? |
Broccoli
Egg Plant (1) P-B 6/9 |
| 4 |
Pepper (1) P-? |
Carrots (16) P-? |
Strawberries (3) P-A
Pepper (1) P-B 6/9 |
Bush Beans (9) S-A |
| 5 |
Pepper (1) P-? |
Cucumber (2) P-? removed 6/27 |
Bush Beans (9) S-A |
Broccoli
Egg Plant (1) P-B 6/9 |
| 6 |
Pepper (1) P-? |
Celery (1) P-? |
Celery (1) P-? |
Celery (1) P-? |
| 7 |
Okra (1) P-? |
Egg Plant (1) P-? |
Okra (1) P-? |
Egg Plant (1) P-? |
| 8 |
Red Onion (16) P-? |
Lettuce (3) P-? |
Lettuce (3) P-? |
Sorel (1) P-? |
| 9 |
Cherry Tomato (1) P-? |
Carrots (16) P-? |
Red Onions (16) P-? |
Red Onion (16) P-? |
| southeast |
## Photos
### May 26
After planting on Mon, May 26, 2014:
### June 21
As of Sat eve, Jun 21, 2014:
east bed
middle bed
west bed
### June 26
Backyard garden haul this evening includes four types of lettuce greens, spinach, and sorel with a few green beans and radishes mixed in. The salad spinner comes in handy. Over the past two weeks, I've been only picking enough greens needed for one or two salads. But I was not keeping up with harvesting because some greens went past peak. So tonight, I picked most of what existed to be stored in the refrigerator. We'll be eating salads every day for the next few days. Good stuff.
### June 27
## Additional Reads
* [Square Foot Gardening](http://jothut.com/cgi-bin/junco.pl/blogpost/37406/Square-Foot-Gardening)
* [Container Gardening Ideas](http://jothut.com/cgi-bin/junco.pl/blogpost/35037/Container-Gardening-Ideas) - maybe build two "Earth Boxes"
## 2014 Notes
* Mon, Jun 2: I saw carrots had sprouted in all the squares that seeds were planted.
* Tue, Jun 3: I saw the beans and peas had sprouted.
* Wed, Jun 4: 0.40 inches of light rain fell, during the afternoon. First real rainfall since the garden was planted. I've been watering at least every other day.
* Thu, Jun 5: Last weekend, I spotted a small rabbit, hanging out among the tall coreopsis stalks, near the backdoor. Yesterday evening, we watched the little rabbit eat a large leaf from a weedy-type of plant, near the coreopsis. This morning, I saw that two broccoli plants and some of the newly-sprouted beans had been scalped. These three squares of plants grew along the east side of the east bed, next to the Oak Openings natives flower bed. So it's time to erect some kind of barrier or fence.
* Thu, Jun 5 cont - I built a fence around the garden, using:
* 1-inch mesh poultry wire netting, 20 gauge galvanized steel, 2-foot tall. I bought two 25-foot rolls and one 10-foot roll from Home Depot. $12.98 per 25-foot roll.
* 4 u-posts and 6 two-foot long rebar posts
* wire to attach fencing to posts
* Thu, Jun 5, cont - I saw a male Eastern Black Swallowtail land in the garden.
* Fri, Jun 6 - I saw a female Widow Skimmer dragonfly land on one side of the middle bed in the garden.
* Sun, Jun 8 - 0.20 in of rain fell in the morning.
* Mon, Jun 9 - squares with "6/9" indicate new plants from Bench's that were planted to replace broken plants, struggling plants, or plants that were munched by the rabbit. I also added four more 'Health Kick' tomato plants that were planted in medium-sized, black, planter-type of buckets, filled with potting soil purchased at Bench's. These four additional tomato plants will grow on the driveway. I'll add a wooden stake within the cone-shaped tomato cage to support the bucket tomato plants. On June 9, I added the stake and cage setup to two tomato plants, growing in the front rows of the east and middle beds. I need more tomato cages.
* Wed, Jun 11 - 0.40 inches of rain fell, mostly before daybreak.
* Sat, Jun 14 - DD picked a radish from the west bed. Just one. Apparently, it peaked above ground a little, so she was curious. It was two inches long, and it tasted fine, so we'll have good radishes soon. The lettuce greens, the spinach, and the sorel are ready to be picked. We could have begun picking greens a few days ago.
* Sun, Jun 15 - We snipped some greens from two or three raised beds for an afternoon salad: a little lettuce, sorel, and spinach. And we plucked another small radish. From the middle oval flower bed, we cut tarragon and chives. We grilled chicken from Zavotsky's. And we're drinking some of our homemade beer: Belgian blonde and the grapefruit honey ale. Nice afternoon. Salad tasted fantastic. Garden to sink to be washed then salad spinner to dry then eaten. Fresh. Temps reached the upper 80s in the late afternoon/early evening.
* Mon, Jun 16 - temps reached 90 degrees in West Toledo today. First 90-degree of the year, I believe. It was a little cooler at the airport. Temps are forecast to be around 90 degrees the next two days with thunderstorms possible both days. Added three more tomato cages to the plants in thin, black containers.
* Tue morning, Jun 17 - I noticed flowers blooming in the garden: several cucumber plants with yellow flowers, at least one egg plant with a light purple flower, and some pepper plants with white flowers. Two of the pepper plants contain very small peppers. The other yellow pair tomato plant is failing too, so I will replace it. All six okra plants have not grown at all since planting three weeks ago. I may replace some of the okra plants with bean seeds and/or radishes. Today, I bought seven more tomato cages and installed them. I decided not to replace the failed yellow pair tomato plant, so we currently have 14 tomato plants, all caged. Today's Noon-time lunch included lettuce, sorel, and spinach from our garden, along with our home-brewed summer wheat beer, which at 5.5% ABV was a good drink for a no-AC house with outdoor temps already at 90 degrees at Noon. The fresh greens taste amazing.
* Wed, Jun 18 - 0.32 inches of rain fell between 3:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. 0.22 inches of rain fell between approximately 5:05 p.m. and 5:25 p.m.
* Thu, Jun 19 - another batch of rain moved into the Toledo area after dark yesterday. The light continued after Midnight. 0.56 inches of rain fell before daybreak. So 1.10 inches of rain fell in approx 12 hours.
* Fri, Jun 20 - 0.27 inches of rain fell in the afternoon and early evening. I picked some salad greens and sorel for dinner.
* Sat, Jun 21 - DD picked a few radishes. Plenty of greens left to eat.
* Sun, Jun 22 - DD fixed us tasty salads. The greens did not come from our garden. DD used locally-grown salad greens, bought last weekend at the Toledo farmers market, along with garlic scapes, purslane _(Portulaca oleracea),_ and kale bought this weekend at the farmers market, plus radishes from our garden, and orange-ish Nasturtium flowers from the potted plant in our backyard that we bought at the farmers market this weekend. I love the taste that Nasturtium adds.
* Mon, Jun 23 - 0.17 inches of rain fell. Other nearby areas received much more rain, including a damaging thunderstorm, so I'm glad that it was boring for us.
* Tue, Jun 24 - 0.03 inches of rain fell before daybreak. Lunch consisted of a big salad with greens from the garden: diff types of lettuce, spinach, and sorel. 0.10 inches of rain fell in the evening. Total rainfall for the day: 0.13 inches. For dinner, another salad made from our garden greens. The chopped up firm, crunchy stalks of the sorel add great flavor.
* Wed, Jun 25 - 2.20 inches of rain fell in 90 minutes, between 4:05 p.m. and 5:35 p.m.
* Thu, Jun 26 - Made a major harvest of lettuce greens, spinach, and sorel this evening. Some of the greens needed picked earlier. I have not been picking the greens soon enough. So tonight, I picked most of the greens left, washed them, dried, and stored them in the frig. I also harvested a few radishes and the first green beans, but only a small amount. The radish plants are 15 to 20 inches tall, big-leafed, but the radish part is only about 3/4-inch long. Strange. I'll let them go for a while before picking anymore to see if the red radish part grows larger. The cucumbers are spreading into other squares and tangling onto other plants. These cucumbers are too viney. I don't remember our cucumbers last year doing this. Must be a different variety. I'm thinking the radishes and cucumbers are out for next year, but it's early yet. I'll definitely plant lettuce greens again, along with spinach and sorel.
* Fri, Jun 27 - Salad for lunch from the June 26 haul. This evening, I removed cucumber plants from 6 of the 7 squares. I left the cucumber plant in the west bed located at A-6 because it's growing up along the fencing. We should not have planted these bush pickle cucumber plants because their vines spread into other beds and around other plants, especially the pepper plants. Too messy. These cucumber plants grew well though, and they were all loaded with yellow flowers. Some vines were about 3 feet long. I'll leave the squares empty for now.
tags: #home - #garden - #food - #blog_jr
#todo : list plant variety for each square