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Garden - potatoes
Apr. 11th, 2021 12:30 pmIn case I didn't mention, I put the corn in the ground last Sunday, Easter Sunday, 4 April 2021. It had started it inside in March; not sure of the exact date but several of the plants were getting 3 to 4 inches tall so I knew it had to go out soon.
I've been keeping an eye on it over the week, watering most every day for about half an hour, using a rotary sprinkler with barely enough power to reach the outer perimeter of the circle. And I've been going out every day to pull up maple seedlings because ... well, tis the season, grow grow grow.
I've also been pulling up other things - including two baby blackberry plants growing for root fragments that had managed to survive the purge last fall. Considering the number of daffadowndillys that popped up this spring, I suppose I shouldn't be so surprised. However, I'm thinking that I do not want to pull up all the greenery in the space between the corn hills. I find I don't like the idea of traditional garden bare dirt except for vegetable plants. This isn't a traditional garden, it's my idea of what I might be able to grow, and I want clover in that space. Give the rabbits something else to nosh on, you know?
Yesterday I noticed that there were six small white potatoes with well-developed sprouting eyes. All were shriveled, the torr of the spud going into the greening sprouts, so I decided ... instead of throwing them away, why not plant them further inside the circle where it's bare? I know it'll be dark in there once the corn gets tall, but I figure, like I said, I'd just be throwing them into compost anyway.
so ... garden count to date - 7 hills with three sprouts of corn each. 6 potatoes set about a foot out from the outer perimeter of all but the hill to the left of the entrance. If I attempt this next year, I'm going to turn it the other way around - potatoes on the outer perimeter, corn on the inner. I'm just winging it this year.
The beans don't go out until the corn is 4 inches tall out of the soil.
I may plant garbanzo beans in some pots, though.
I've been keeping an eye on it over the week, watering most every day for about half an hour, using a rotary sprinkler with barely enough power to reach the outer perimeter of the circle. And I've been going out every day to pull up maple seedlings because ... well, tis the season, grow grow grow.
I've also been pulling up other things - including two baby blackberry plants growing for root fragments that had managed to survive the purge last fall. Considering the number of daffadowndillys that popped up this spring, I suppose I shouldn't be so surprised. However, I'm thinking that I do not want to pull up all the greenery in the space between the corn hills. I find I don't like the idea of traditional garden bare dirt except for vegetable plants. This isn't a traditional garden, it's my idea of what I might be able to grow, and I want clover in that space. Give the rabbits something else to nosh on, you know?
Yesterday I noticed that there were six small white potatoes with well-developed sprouting eyes. All were shriveled, the torr of the spud going into the greening sprouts, so I decided ... instead of throwing them away, why not plant them further inside the circle where it's bare? I know it'll be dark in there once the corn gets tall, but I figure, like I said, I'd just be throwing them into compost anyway.
so ... garden count to date - 7 hills with three sprouts of corn each. 6 potatoes set about a foot out from the outer perimeter of all but the hill to the left of the entrance. If I attempt this next year, I'm going to turn it the other way around - potatoes on the outer perimeter, corn on the inner. I'm just winging it this year.
The beans don't go out until the corn is 4 inches tall out of the soil.
I may plant garbanzo beans in some pots, though.
