It's been awhile since I wrote the last time here. Last year was the first time I experimented in my garden with vegetables, altough there were some good and bad things, but I do not make of it a cry river loud situation. The bad is my failure to success with bulbs(beets, carrots, radishes), they simply didn't grow, all I got were plant leaves but no bulbs.On the other side are green beans which to grow(yesterday I got a powder soil inoculant for beans and peas, next spring will use it to see if production is better than last year)is very easy and I'm prove of that.
By the next spring all the garden should be ready and going, We'll get the lawn done and some edges will be build to grow plants and flowers of which I have several varieties already in seed form, many growing already indoors.
When I moved my square ft garden boxes to the permanent place where they will stay I had to figure out a way to make the north side of the boxes taller with 1 ft of soil(the boxes have only 8 inches of soil), so I bought 8 more fts of 1 ft tall pine to separe the rest 4 1 by 1 squares from the other 4(where the vines will grow) and added more soil in this spaces so tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, peas, pole beans, muskmelons, etc; will not have trouble going).
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| Square ft boxes |
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| 8 to 6 vines ready for next spring. |
The deciduos trees are almost bald, some totally and others not so much. My nut all oak haven't lost all of the leaves, but lost many already. The squirrels nests are more vulnerable now, falcons and eagles fly everyday searching for a snack. My brother said to me a week ago there was an eagle in the neighbor tree and one squirrel was looking at it with wide eyes open, who knows if that bird ate a friend or family of that squirrel, but whatever it was at least we got one less barking squirrel, they bark like crazy!.
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| My front patio full of fall leaves. |
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| Squirrel nest under my oak. |
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| Squirrel nest 5 houses across mine. |
The good thing about seeds is the cheap price for so many of them. Yes you need to sow it yourself, but to me it's not a problem and the seeds lifespan can last up to 6 years if well preserved.
