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Category: My First Vegetable (2008) | Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 4:16 pm

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My First Vegetable Garden Day One: 2-29-08

What a day! I could sleep for a week! This morning started slow with the baby up all night and into the wee hours I didn't start bright and early like I had planned, It seems with the little one plans change like the weather.

I was finally out on the 4-wheeler to finish disking at 10am, Emily supervised, as usual. I ended up with a smaller plot than planned after I relised how far over my head I was, it's probably about 15X20 instead of 15X30.
Today was the last day of James's deer season at his lease and he missed an early morning doe so he was in about noon and helped after checking in on the food plot in the back and clearing some more of the woods out. Thankfully he's all done with the season so I can look foprward to alot more help with the garden for a few weeks. We fought roots from the oak trees for most of the day after I finished disking up the plot, and that was quite a fight! There is one at each of three corners and they are very large and old so the roots were huge and ran almost all the way through the garden. I had soaked seeds for the green beans over night and so when the sun began to set I decided we'd go ahead and make two rows for them, no fertilizer other than the burnings we had from cleaning out the garden and some rotted oak leaves but maybe they'll be okay anyways. Fingers crossed.

We had some mower trouble, a broken belt, but managed to get it fixed just in time for cleaning up. He plans on mowing tommorow while I dig more rows, should we put the clippings over the beans to give them a little more warmth or would they grow grass?

Oh, and I found out this evening there may be another freeze (low of 32F) Monday, so I am still trying to decide whether to plant the pepper transplants before then or not, that's also going to be the first really good rain we've had in a week or so and the highs are still in the upper 70s with only mid-40s for lows except that one day. What do yall think? I suppose I could keep them up on the porch under cover til the freeze either comes or doesn't, but would it make a difference?
I really want to get them in as soon as possible since the beans are in now and the tomatoes will be here Sunday evening (Easter presents from my mother-in-law, hooray!) and I have the herbs and a few other veggie seeds just begging me to plant them.





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glendann wrote on Sat Mar 01, 2008 4:51 pm:

I wouldn't plant the pepper plants yet unless you have lots of pots that will fit down over them without bending or breaking your plants.You could line tomato cages and put over them.

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eileen wrote on Sat Mar 01, 2008 10:11 pm:

I'd definately hold off on planting up the peppers just now if there's a chance of frost. However, I think it's a good idea to put the grass clippings on the beans to give them extra warmth. The mown grass shouldn't grow as the roots will still be in the ground so it's only the 'leaves' that you'd be putting on the beans.
Hope you have a good nights sleep tonight after all that hard work.

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Netty wrote on Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:58 pm:

Sounds like you got a lot accomplished today.
I'd hold off planting the peppers until the threat of frost is gone.
You should sleep well tonight...let's hope Emily does too!

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Sapphire wrote on Sun Mar 02, 2008 12:09 am:

Sounds awesome! I'm still waiting on my seeds and berry bushes to arrive, but have at least started digging the plots.. anyway, hope your garden flourishes this year! (Especially with all the hard work you've put into it => )

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Palm Tree wrote on Sun Mar 02, 2008 7:12 pm:

THat is working so hard.
YOu are amazing to do all of that and with so little sleep too.

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