Saturday, March 21, 2009

Garden: Planted

We went out and planted the garden today. Shawn even helped, which I was surprised by, I figured he would have been spreading compost on the lawn while I planted plants, but he actually helped dig holes and whatnot.

We've got all the tomato plants, the eggplant, and two pepper plants in the new garden, and the cayenne was bumped to the front yard area. We also noticed that 3 of the pepper plants from last year are starting to regenerate (I had cut off the plants at the ground after the first major frost). Which is cool. It would be even cooler if they actually produced some peppers this year.

After planting stuff we then had to compost stuff (or rather since I wanted compost tea, it meant we had to take the enviro-cycle off its base to get to the tea), and once the cycle part is off, we might as well compost the yard...which then means we gotta do yard work to get more stuff to put in the composter.

4 comments:

Rhonda Abrons said...

Welcome to Austin gardening and congrats on your garden being put in! I've organically grown in Austin since 1988 in all areas of town. Using spent mushroom compost for the first time last year, I was finally able to get full size tomatoes, cantaloupe that went full term and so ripe and sweet. Check out our blog and give it a try. www.spentmushroomcompostblog.com. this compost is amazingly water retaining.

Bob said...

A smart move right now is to be getting all the grass clippings from friends and neighbors that you can. You'll need mulch for heat protection before your lawn produces enough for your garden. All the relatives bring theirs to us but it's usually later than I would like to have it so I save over bags of leaves from the fall. I'm 16 bags ahead right now, woot.

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Katharine said...

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