Growth has exploded in some parts of the garden. Some veggies, including the eggplants and the cucumbers, have spilled over into adjacent paths and are now breaking out through open slots in the garden’s fence.
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Next year’s crop wish list
This a list of new crops we might want to plant next year. Please add to it.
- Bok choi
- Spinach
- Brussells sprouts
- Non-edible flowers for cutting
- Winter squash and pumpkins
- Onions from seed
And if the garden becomes permanent and we can add perennials:
- Raspberries
- Rhubarb
- Perennial herbs, like thyme, oregano, mint, etc.
- Asparagus
- Garlic
Palm trees of collards and kale
We have harvested tasty young leaves from our collards and kale plants nearly every week over the past 2 months. They're now at a point where they look like a plantation of tiny palm trees.
Irrigation
If we plan to use drip irrigation in the future, lay it out before planting, then plant the seedlings next to the emitters. Trying to snake a soaker around full-grown squash and tomato plants was not the best practice.
Consider setting up some kind of small rain barrel or cistern or any kind of bucket-with-a-hose-fitting-on-the-bottom to feed drip lines. We can’t collect much rainwater without a roof and gutters, but we can fill a container from the hose and let it drain out slowly through drip lines to plants that like even moisture, like tomatoes.
Shockingly Prolific
Blossom End Rot
On Monday, I discovered that our mystery tomato plant (which clearly seems to be a plum tomato of some sort) had tomatoes that had blossom end rot. In my container garden, this is usually solved by an application of lime. It seem like for tomatoes in the ground this is caused by a lack of calcium uptake by the plant caused by uneven watering. We need to pay more attention to watering the tomatoes. Odd, however, that this seems to be occurring on only 1 of our tomato plants.
