I have finally finished planting my garden. It is off to a good start. This year my fertilizers are alfalfa meal, egg shells, and potash. I will see how this works and then decide if I like it.
Tomatoes are near the far end of the garden this year as my rotation puts them there. I use the 1/3 rule of rotation because my garden isn't very large. You can see I have already gotten some grass clippings and have distributed them around as well. I will work to get in my tomato plant stakes in the next week.
The middle of the garden is full of my low growers, onions, beets, kohlrabi, carrots, bush beans, and zucchini. I usually run into the problem later on of my monster zucchini plants taking over more than their fair share of the garden, but I will worry about that later.
The far end of the garden is where the sweet peppers will grow this year. If you noticed my fencing is far taller than in previous years. Last year deer jumped the outer fence then basically stepped over my short fence to gobble up as much of my garden as possible. Add to that a devastating hail and wind storm over the 4th of July and my garden had areas that never recovered. I am hoping to avoid that this year with a taller fence and will use some tarps if really bad weather is approaching.
One last change this year is to spread out my cucumber plants, then train them to grow towards the fence eventually growing up the fence. I think that sometimes my plants are way too close together along the fence line so maybe this will help them grow.
Gardening is especially good for the soul during troubling times. So get out there and take advantage of some gardening therapy. Happy gardening!
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