Yes, I've spent the last month traveling and the most exciting thing I can think to write about is my garden. Feel free to skip to the next blog.
We're getting ready to start our addition in the next few weeks and this means my vegetable garden will come under assault by backhoes and other construction equipment. Some of that space may remain once everything is finished, but not without suffering extreme abuse.
So I've walled in another section below the Buddha Garden of approximately the same size and have been transporting my hard built soil down from the old garden. I have some potatoes sprouting to plant there and am going to do carrots on about a third of the plot.
In addition, I tore up a bush between the main building and the lodge this last fall and since this spot gets a little more sun, I'm going to plant some tomatoes once we're past the last frost (June 5!) and see if I can coax some tomatoes out of our very short northern New England growing season.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
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Put down some black plastic "mulch". You can get it in a perforated form which will still allow water through it. That will warm the soil. There is also the suggestion of using Wall-O-Waters. I don't think you will get any benefit on the fall end, but you should get an extra week or two worth of protection if a late frost happens to hit. In any case, warm soil is the key to growing tomatoes.
June 5--yikes! You need Dad to apply some of his black magic. He seems to get tomatoes a month earlier than everyone else out here. He puts the Wall-O-Water down early to warm the soil before planting. You could also try starting plants indoors and getting them a little bit bigger before you stick them in the ground. But, you're not really in tomato country, so better keep the expectations modest and steer towards the hard vegetables.
Oh, and it's funny to hear you talking about gardening based on our relative interest in Dad's projects when we were kids.
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