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Although, it's been such a sweltering spring that this actually caught me a little by surprise this morning. I knew in my head that today was the first day of summer, but actually hearing it on the news as I was making my bed just kind of whacked my brain... "Whoa, it already feels like it's been summer for a while!"
Anyway, enjoy this looooooongest day of the year today. Stay up and watch the moon if you are able. Ponder the stars and how God has created all of these to speak to you of His plan for the ages. Dwell on Him.
The days will be shortening from now on, for those of us who are northern globe-dwellers. Can you believe it? Just when we were getting going! But that means we can already begin planning for a fall garden. And since my spring garden has been less than stellar, I'm actually looking forward to a second shot at it.
The lettuce and pea beds will have another opportunity, and I hope to get the greenhouse and cold frames in before winter.
I can't believe I am already planning this!
~Faith
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Showing posts with label Cold Frames. Show all posts
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Monday, June 21, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Melon Beds and Eggplant
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After a really nice Mother's Day with my parents on Sunday where I was finally able to give Mom that orchid we'd bought her, visited for a few hours, and ate a meal I cooked over there, Monday was another great work day.
It was nice and cool. Boy have I missed having cool spring days for working. Seems like we went straight from winter to summer.
We won't be able to have as many melon plants as last year but, seeing as we didn't get more than a couple of melons to eat due to the fusarium wilt, having even a few successful vines will be a big success.
We worked on the lowest two beds left at the bottom of the first side of the garden. We made them wider to accommodate larger plants. I suppose the are each about 5 feet wide.
I could not wait any longer to plant the eggplants. They were beginning to struggle in their little pots, and the flea beetles had found them on the front porch anyhow, so in they went, with lots of newspaper mulch and rocks to hold it down.
The smaller peppers are not really thriving. Maybe they need more water. I'm hoping for a local thunderstorm to hit us on Wednesday and eliminate the need to drag a hose, but we'll see.
And it's time to begin tying up tomatoes!
We left to visit friends for a little bit before Michael's gymnastics class. They gave us some scrap wood. But my plan to bring it home in the minivan was overridden by the fact that there was so much beautiful wood to bring home. They loaded it in their truck and brought it out to our place after his class.
I'm really excited about this, as now I have wood to build cold frames!
And Michael's class had a nice surprise. There were two other boys there. I hope they return.
~Faith
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After a really nice Mother's Day with my parents on Sunday where I was finally able to give Mom that orchid we'd bought her, visited for a few hours, and ate a meal I cooked over there, Monday was another great work day.
It was nice and cool. Boy have I missed having cool spring days for working. Seems like we went straight from winter to summer.
We won't be able to have as many melon plants as last year but, seeing as we didn't get more than a couple of melons to eat due to the fusarium wilt, having even a few successful vines will be a big success.
We worked on the lowest two beds left at the bottom of the first side of the garden. We made them wider to accommodate larger plants. I suppose the are each about 5 feet wide.
I could not wait any longer to plant the eggplants. They were beginning to struggle in their little pots, and the flea beetles had found them on the front porch anyhow, so in they went, with lots of newspaper mulch and rocks to hold it down.
The smaller peppers are not really thriving. Maybe they need more water. I'm hoping for a local thunderstorm to hit us on Wednesday and eliminate the need to drag a hose, but we'll see.
And it's time to begin tying up tomatoes!
We left to visit friends for a little bit before Michael's gymnastics class. They gave us some scrap wood. But my plan to bring it home in the minivan was overridden by the fact that there was so much beautiful wood to bring home. They loaded it in their truck and brought it out to our place after his class.
I'm really excited about this, as now I have wood to build cold frames!
And Michael's class had a nice surprise. There were two other boys there. I hope they return.
~Faith
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