It didn’t snow and I did play in the garden this afternoon! I re-planted the spinach and the peas….the spinach I planted on the 4th of April didn’t grow at all, but there were three pea plants….:) The squirrels got the rest I assume, as the pea patch was riddled with holes. I also planted Butterhead Lettuce and Rainbow Swiss Chard.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I did the garden up last fall using the Lasagna Gardening method. Right now my gardens are heaps of straw and manure and leaves. When I “planted” the seeds, I put down compost on top of the straw, broadcast the seeds on top of that, then added a shower of dirt and then watered them. I have no idea if it will work, but the book says it will. I am trusting the book. I want a healthy garden this year.
Last year I had tons of aphids and cabbage eaters and this white mold-like stuff on all my squash leaves. All the rest of my green babies did well, except for the bush beans, they hardly produced at all for no reason I could discern.
I went to a local gardening shop and bought stuff I forgot to get seeds for. I forgot to buy Cucumber seeds! Can you believe it? I can’t, yet I did. So I bought 2 baby cukes and 2 baby golden sweet peppers and 1 baby parsley plant, 6 cabbage and 6 Brussels sprouts…I have had no luck with the last two veggies, but hope springs eternal and I love to eat them, so I am going to try again. Of course, last year we had 2 horrid, terrible hail storms in two days, so a lot of things got damaged and never quite recovered.
I also bought 2,000 lady bugs today. I find it funny that you have to water them every day. I think if I name them all “Bob” (a friend’s suggestion) and make that sound when I mist them, they will come to associate that sound with sudden flooding and run in the opposite direction. I might be able to control them that way……
1,2,3-4,5,6-7,8,9-10,11,12. And the Ladybugs 12 at the Ladybugs picnic!
Well that’s going to be in my head all night 😉
Good luck with them. They are vicious little critters. The aphids tremble!
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