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Category: My First Vegetable (2008) | Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 2:26 am

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My grandfather always told me "If you want to hear God laugh, tell Him your plans." Boy did I have a good one for him this weekend.

Saturday after I filled in the progress and updated the blog (with my plans to sow more seeds and finish the rows, mowing, etc.) I was feeding Emily when my husband came in and started packing bags and loading them into the truck, apparently his mother wanted him to come in and Bar-B-Q Saturday instead of Sunday. She had called and told him to head in. Knowing that one day Emily will move away and I'll be calling and begging for a visit, I only sighed and packed up the diaper bag for a weekend trip.

It was disappointing to leave knowing that I had so much work planned for that day and knowing that Monday was quite a ways off but we went in anyways. I did get to get my hands dirty on Saturday, pulling weeds and planting calla lilies at my mother-in-law's house while my husband cooked. It was a shame it wasn't my garden I was working in on Saturday, I accomplished everything I had planned to with minimal disruption, and still got to enjoy dinner with the family, that hasn't happened in a while.

I suppose it was for the best, if I had been working here I would have planted the cukes and carrots and maybe even a few of the herbs. They would have had to sit through tonight (Monday) and the freeze is here, it's dropped at least 15 degrees in a couple hours and I have a laundry room full of transplants, herbs, and fruit trees that are glad that they didn't get planted this weekend.
Pictures:
These are the collards and the jalepeneo, banana, chile/cayenne, bell and habenero peppers


These are the strawberries, and peppermint, lemon balm, cilantro, oregano, and parsley transplants.

And one of all of it.

On the bright side the herbs I planted in the mini greenhouse have begun to sprout.



I was very surprised since I left them (the herbs) on top of the rabbit's cage and they were blown off, and all the way to the ground from the porch. All the little pots were flopped out of their holes and I wouldn't be surprised if I end up with parsley in the basil, and oregano as that pot was spilt all over the rest.
I have a few transplant of parsley, greek oregano, peppermint, and lemon balm that will be going into the herb garden with the mini-greenhouse plants so it's shaping up to be a nice little herb patch.

This weekend I spoke to my MIL and aunt who gave me a different idea for the actual arrangement of the garden. I had planned to do rows in a large rectangle and box it in with landscape timbers or tree trunks from the trees James is clearing out of the back. Mom said that a four or 5 small boxes would make it much easier when I went to tending and harvesting and I really hadn't put too much thought into it. Now I am thinking maybe put the herbs in a bed all to themselves with the garlic, the watermelon, cantalope and strawberries can go all togeather in a small bed as well, then do three or four beds with different veggies but give them alot of space to grow and alot of space for me to get around in there tending them.

Does anyone on here plant their vegetables in multiple beds or is it best to put them all in one area? I thought this was something that might also help with my pepper problem, I have 5 different kinds of transplants and I still haven't bought any of the seeds that I want to get so that will probably up the number as well and I have to at least separate the sweet peppers from the hot ones. If anyone's done this could you let me in on the problems I might have to worry about? If it's a bad idea is there any reason I can't leave a large space in between rows for me to work in?


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Droopy wrote on Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:17 am:

I hope you enjoyed your week-end with the in-laws, LP. Those tender plants of yours were probably better off indoors after all. Sounds like your herbs decided to make a bouquet garnee all by themselves, making it easier for you to harvest. *lol* Good luck on your changed planting plans, I think it sounds like a good idea.

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Sjoerd wrote on Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:48 am:

Hello There,

We plant our veggies in two different places and in multiple beds so that we can rotate them properly and easily get to them to weed and harvest. I also make use of a small greenhouse for my toms and peppers.
We do plant sort by sort with little paths in between. Here and there I employ the technique known as "companion planting".
I do not really have any problems except the usual ones of pests and blight which I have to take steps to combat.

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eileen wrote on Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:44 am:

Oh I would be soooo glad that I'd spent the week-end away and not planted up all those young 'uns. You were obviously meant to leave them where they were for a while longer.

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glendann wrote on Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:48 pm:

I am glad you didn't get them planted as you would have cried when all your little plants drooped.It was much more enjoyable to have a great lunch.

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petunia wrote on Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:34 pm:

LilyP.
Love your idea of your garden. What I have done in my garden is veget. in one area and fruit in an area. I have rows between everything so that I have room to walk and pick. My strawberries are separate by themselves. I've included a picture, the first one is before I put rows in my strawberries-very crowded and hard to pick then the 2nd is where I put rows in between at the end of fall last year so we'll see this year how that'll work.
[IMG]http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff272/little-sister_2007/vege%20garden/P7180011.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff272/little-sister_2007/vege%20garden/P7260008.jpg[/IMG]
Hope this helps some.

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petunia wrote on Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:36 pm:

Sorry--guess the pict didn't come thru.

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LilyPlanter77351 wrote on Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:22 am:

I put em in the address bar and saw them that'sa just what I was thinking of doing very nice!

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