Belle and I planned several things we hoped to finish before the time came to plant tomatoes. It's time now. We didn't get everything finished, but we did get a couple projects done recently.
There was that mess of asparagus plants we grew from seed without any plan about where to put them. Does this ever happen to you? You grow something from seed without a plan and
viola, instead of planning your garden space for plants your plants plan your garden space for you? In this case 30 asparagus plants under lights in the basement were demanding space. So we did what they commanded and put a new bed, 3'x'50, along the south side of the garden. They seem satisfied.
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| The box is on the left outside the garden fence (not up yet) |
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| Mary Washington Asparagus from seed |
Belle plants herbs in whatever corner of the garden she can find. For a while now, she's been bugging me to make an herb garden for her. I admit, I haven't been that interested. Who wants sprigs? Show me the watermelon! I need weight value. My logic must not make much sense, because Belle's been persistent. I finally got to it. On Saturday I build a corner box, about 5 feet across at the top, just outside the kitchen door. It's a good start.
Speaking of melons, Belle planted watermelon, banana melon, honeydew and cantaloupe outside yesterday. It's too early, but they were outgrowing their space inside. We're mitigating the problem with Cozy Coats. So far they seem happy in their new home.
The real joy of the week has been planting Redventure celery. We've never grown celery in our garden. This variety is doing very well so far. We're hoping for lots of celery this summer. Belle will freeze it and put it in soup this winter.
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| One of 30 or 40 celery plants that went out this week. |
