Lewis Harvest, August 21, 2016

My husband and I just took a break and walked out to the garden, where we harvested these, plus around the yard, where we found a rose in bloom. Mostly, things have shut down with the excessive heat, despite the irrigation system.  I still have all kinds of leaves in the main square foot garden for things like melons. We have a few more cucumbers and some green tomatoes. The plants in the nook planter on the side of the house we think are finished. I’ll probably take them down this week. My husband wants to take out the asparagus I transplanted and use the planter for more tomatoes, since they seem to be happier on the east side of the house. We’re going to figure out something to make a wind break and we’ll cover the plants with netting.

We have a hydrangea that bit the dust this summer. It was in a blue half-barrel to the side of the walkway to the shop. I’m thinking about dumping that out, replacing the dirt in the planter with Mel’s Mix, and transplanting my asparagus there. The roots would have a lot of room in there…

I’m about to stretch string in the raised bed planters. I want to get carrot and radish seeds going, as well as get the planters ready for fall plants, whether they come as transplants from the seeds I’ve started in the house, or plants bought from local sources.

I’ll give the original square foot planters longer before I clean things up out there, in preparation for replacing the ground garden with the other three raised bed planters we have ready to install.

I may have little clue what I’m doing, but I’m having a GREAT time doing it!!!! :0)

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