What an evening. Decided to do the fall seeds in the veggie garden and to test stuff. I divided the bed into 4 different areas.
Where I usually plant the tomatoes I put in a cover crop of Crimson Clover. I covered most of this with straw. I want to see if the soil gets more nitrogen naturally from the cover crop.
The new greenhouse that I got for Christmas 2020 is in the middle. I have the green netting on it now. I planted 5 rows of root vegetables covered with straw to aerate the soil.
- Carrot Long Imperator
- Detroit Red Beets
- Purple Top White Turnips
- Radish, Comet
- 2nd row of Detroit Red Beets
The last 3rd of the garden is divided in 2. The left side I’ve left alone as a control. The right side I put down a heavy layer of straw. Want to see if it will repress all of the weeds and self-seeded marigolds.
Next up in the new garden:
- Dig up gladiolus from Oz Garden
- Dig up and divide iris from the Front Porch Garden
- Dig up roses to move to the Garage Garden
- Dig up creeping phlox for the Garage Garden
- Need to return plants to Lowe’s
- Purchase soil conditioner/compost and mulch for Garage Garden
- Dig up scotch broom and siberian iris from Front Porch Garden
- Return plants
- Prepare soil
- Add 10-10-10 fertilizer and soil conditioner or compost
- rototill soil
- Gather bulbs and plants (including dutch iris bulbs)
- Check layout
- Plant
- Mulch
- Water
- Decide if moving soaker hose from Oz Garden to Garage Garden
Bunches of other stuff needs to be done:
- Weed & prep Shade Garden
- Mulch Flag Garden
- Transplant Tropicana rose to Corner Garden
- General weeding
- Clean out pots – remove plants and clean all pots including seed pots