The garden beds have been mounded with compost, and parts of the garden have now (finally) been planted. We opted to do only 2 wood frames - for the tomatoes - so the rest of the beds are just mounded soil and compost.
Priority planting was given to the tomatoes, since we bought them as starts and they should go into the ground as quickly as possible. We have a total of about 15 plants in the two beds, and each bed is surrounded by a wire fence to try to keep out the deer. The plants are predominantly cherry and plum sized tomatoes this year, since the larger tomatoes didn't have time to ripen
last year.
After the ravaging from wildlife that the garden got last year, we decided to try grow more plants that are theoretically unattractive to deer, gophers and whoever else is around: onions, squash, radishes, herbs, etc. The onions (grown from
sets rather than seeds) sprouted quickly, giving us some much needed encouragement that our garden could still be productive despite our late start.
The squashes include a bed each of butternut, zucchini, delicata, acorn, and sugar pumpkin. The zucchini (right) came out of the gate first. Cucumber, lettuce, swiss chard, spinach, and beans round out the plantings so far.
Grow, grow!
- Mike (& Corinne)
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