Gardening Diary – June 29, 2019

Garden at right side of house.

Picture taken on June 29, 2019.

Weedeated the right side of the walkway between the house and the Rose bed, straw bale beds #7-8, etc. Continued to weedeating to the right side of the house.

Gardening Diary – June 27, 2019

 

Sharon harvesting Short ‘n Sweet Carrots

Picture taken on June 27, 2019.

Harvested vegetables

Picture taken on June 27, 2019.

Sharon harvested many of the Short ‘n Sweet Carrots from straw bale bed #5. She also harvested some Ichiban Eggplant, Black Beauty Eggplant, and Asian Cucumbers.

Sharon pruning Tomatoes.

Picture taken on June 27, 2019.

Then, Sharon pruned the Tomatoes.

Gardening Diary – June 24, 2019

 On the right side of the new fence, weedeated the back row, the row on the other side of straw bale beds #1-4 and all rows parallel to the new fence except the row between the Hydrangea bed and the right fence bed.

Gardening Diary – June 22, 2019

 

Walkway in front of tier bed.

Picture taken on June 26, 2019.

Weedeated the two walkways on either side of the bush bed and the walkway in front of the tier bed.

Gardening Diary – June 21, 2019

 

Sedum / Iris bed

Picture taken on June 21, 2019.

Finished weeding the Sedum / Iris bed. Most of the weeds uprooted were Violets, Nutsedge, and Morning Glory as shown in the “before” picture above.

Gardening Diary – June 20, 2019

 

Sedum / Iris bed

Picture taken on June 21, 2019.

Weeded the old part of the original bed and then proceeded to weed the part of the Sedum / Iris bed outside of the part containing the Sedum. Most of the weeds uprooted were Violets, Nutsedge, and Morning Glory.

Gardening Diary – June 17, 2019

 

Sharon harvesting a Zucchini

Picture taken on June 17, 2019.

Sharon harvested her first Zucchini from the straw bale garden.

Gardening Diary – June 5 - 13, 2019

 During this period, over 3 inches of rain fell on the garden.

Sharon cared for the straw bale beds at the times when it was not raining. She harvested, pruned and used kaolin clay on the plants.

Suffering and recovering from a flu bug prevented my gardening work.

Gardening Diary – June 4, 2019

 Sharon and I took the refuse plastic boxes and 4 bags of garden waste to the dump.

Noah and Sharon planting Crimson Sweet Watermelon seedlings.

Picture taken June 4, 2019.

Noah and Sharon evened out the soil in straw bale bed #6. They planted 6 Crimson Watermelon seedlings and rearranged the drip hoses so that the seedlings would receive most of the water.

Noah watered the seedlings and, then, I watered the Strawberry tower.

Gardening Diary – June 3, 2019

Oregon Sugar Pod II Peas

Picture taken June 3, 2019.

Sharon and I harvested the rest of the Oregon Sugar Pod II Peas from straw bale bed #6. Afterwards, we removed all the plants and put them into the compost pile.

Yellow Crookneck Squash and Short ‘n Sweet Carrot

Picture taken June 3, 2019.

Detroit Dark Red Beet

Picture taken on June 3, 2019.

Sharon harvested a Yellow Crookneck Squash from straw bale bed #2 and a Short ‘n Sweet Carrot and a Detroit Dark Red Beet from straw bale bed #5.

Sharon and harvested Roma II Bush Beans

Picture taken on June 3, 2019.

She also harvested Roma II Bush Beans from straw bale bed #7

Sharon harvested Detroit Dark Red Beets

Picture taken on June 3, 2019.

and harvested Detroit Dark Red Beets from straw bale bed #8.

While Sharon was harvesting, I went back and reweeded a part of the original bed. A bunch of Morning Glories and Yellow Nutsedges [Cyperus esculentus] came up. Again, pruned the Rose bush in the original bed. Need to cut this bush to the ground and coat it with a herbicide.

Gardening Diary – June 1, 2019

 Installed T-connectors in each of the irrigation lines in Hydrangea bed and the 2nd bulb bed about halfway down each of the beds. Connected the additional line that was installed yesterday.

Cut out part of the irrigation line that went from the 2nd bulb bed to the Hydrangea bed. Capped off the remaining lines at the cuts.

Tested successfully this setup.