The 2013 Garden Plan . There is a full size pic at the bottom of the Charles William Post
There is nothing quite like planning the garden to make you quick for spring to look sharp up and get here ! So this retiring week , as we learn December ’s snow melt and some warmer than average temperatures tease us – Mary and I put the end touch on our 2013 garden plan .
Many former standby ’s remain in this year ’s design . A sound planting of Roma ( 24 ea . ) and Celebrity ( 8 ea . ) tomato works that are the staples for our alimentary paste and pizza sauce , salsa and ketchup that we make and can . Also back : blistering banana , jalapeno , cayenne and Cajun Belle peppers that we use in our hot pepper grinds , pulverisation , and of course Mary ’s famous hot pepper Indian mustard .
The 2013 Garden Plan. There is a full size picture at the bottom of the post
New edition to the garden this year will be wrangle of head lettuce and cabbage , the multi - colored mellifluous mini peppers that are becoming popular , and a small course of Zea mays everta .
The Italian Roaster . These pepper turn to a beautiful Red River late in the season and are amazing on the grill !
The Lycopersicon esculentum and peppers that filled the upper garden region will now get splay to the bottom half
The Italian Roaster. These peppers turn to a beautiful red late in the season and are amazing on the grill!
The Roma Tomato will continue to be a prominent staple in our garden . It is the perfect love apple for sauces and salsa
The cervid have found the wintertime rye we plant in the decline as as cover crop to their liking . Hence the fence you see in the backdrop will now go all around the garden this year ! 🙂
We always leave a row empty for test young works we might find at a nursery or greenhouse . It seems like we are always coming home with at least one unplanned plant at every stop ! It is , after all , how we stumbled upon the Cajun Belle a few years back , an amazing starter and salsa pepper . And last year it led to finding the Italian Roaster , a corking tasting and broil pepper . They both have become two of our recent favorites . If we can get our hand on a ghost capsicum pepper plant this year ( one of the hottest peppers in the world ) – we will in spades embed one – but then that just makes for some tense moments this spill when we have to try it !
The tomatoes and peppers that filled the upper garden area will now get rotated to the bottom half
As we do each year , we splay the garden rows to use young area for last year ’s planting . Our peppers and tomatoes will move from the top rows down to the bottom section of raised layer , and our greens , white potato and beans to the top . In addition to rotating the sections – we also flip the rows from where we imbed them the last time they were in these beds – so it becomes 4 years before the same flora goes into the same space .
We will also be changing how we plant our cucumber and zucchini this year – using the chaff Basel method acting . We will fill the two row used to rise them with a line of business of husk bales . Then , we will dig up out ( 3 ) , 12″ cryptical and 12″ diameter set in each bale and fill them with a copious surface soil / compost land premix to establish the zucchini and cucumber in . The plants can then mature above and off the earth , with the straw helping to hold their wet in . The bales also furnish a cascade support for the vines and hopefully , great deal and lots of cucumbers and zucchini .
One new edition will be the installation of the 5′ post and gameboard fence all around the garden . Up until this class , we only had the fence along the front – more as a medal than anything . But the deer have happen our garden to their like over the winter . Moreover , I opine it might be the lush dark-green back harvest of winter rye that they found under the snow that they love ! Deer have never really bothered the garden too much in the yesteryear , but we figure fencing it will keep it that path !
The Roma Tomato will continue to be a big staple in our garden. It is the perfect tomato for sauces and salsa
Although we did n’t quite get it finish before wintertime hit – we will hopefully have the silo up and installed by the compost bin in the garden . The silo will hold piles of shredded leaf to utilise throughout the year in the garden and compost bins
When completed , we will also have the garden silo . It will hold net ton of shredded leaves collected from last fall to apply as mulch on garden plant and rows – and to add up organic material to compost mass throughout the season . Along side of the silo will be the double compost bin and one of our 275 rainfall water assemblage tanks . The cooler holds enough rainwater to water the garden for 20 twenty-four hour period , and is filled from our rainwater collection tanks from the barn roof .
No matter what happens , one thing is for sure – we will have sport with the whole gardening mental process !
The deer have found the winter rye we planted in the fall as as cover crop to their liking. Hence the fence you see in the background will now go all around the garden this year! 🙂
Happy gardening ! – Jim and Mary
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The 2013 Garden Plan
Although we didn’t quite get it finished before winter hit – we will hopefully have the silo up and installed by the compost bins in the garden. The silo will hold tons of shredded leaves to use throughout the year in the garden and compost bins
The 2013 Garden Plan
