Long weekend away

Well we went away for the May 24th weekend. I watered the plants really well on Friday morning and was away till Tuesday evening. The plants were left with no one to water them. I was concerned that they wouldn't be alright. It was quite hot and sunny. We came back and the plants were fine. They had all grown while we were away and were looking pretty good. Some were a little wilted but the day after they were watered they looked fine. My strawberries had some nice flowers on them. Because they are everbearing and this is their first year I had to cut them off. Cutting off the flowers till the end of June is supposed to make the next berries better. It is sad to cut them off as they looked so nice and it meant strawberries would be next but alas it is best for the plant so away they had to go.

Some of the lettuce is going pretty yellow. From what I read it is looking like they are lacking nitrogen. Rather then go and buy nitrogen for them I looked into if there was something from home that I could use. I read that you can use coffee grounds. As we have coffee grounds I decided to try that. We will see how it works. I put some on this morning and watered them to help the grounds get into the dirt. Hopefully that works, if not I will see what else we can try.

Love

Candy

Tilled plot

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We finally tilled our plot on Sunday. Now its starting to look like a garden.

Today I went to the plot and measured out my paths for the beds. The garden beds are 3 feet wide and the path is 18inches. One foot paths was not enough room and 2 feet was too big so I went with one and half feet. The two beds at the one side of the plot are 2 feet instead of 3 because if I went with 3 for the one end then my path would be almost right beside the edge of the garden. So in the interest of not wasting space I went with 2, 2 feet wide beds. My paths are just started and I am sure they will look better as I get more work done on the plot. I want to start planting some seeds and the plants I have started at home but as we are going to be away for a few days it doesn't make sense to do that. I will do that when I get home.

Love

Candy

Garden Plot

Well we finally have access to our garden plot. We stopped there on May 1st and did some work on it. We dug up and hand tilled a small section. We had 3 bin outsides leftover from when we made our EarthTainers and we used those a 3 small raised beds. I plan on putting some tomato's and peppers in them once they are ready to be outside. We plan to rent a tiller for the rest of the garden. As you can see from the pictures it is in rough shape. I think its been a few years since they were used. You can only tell where the plot is because we did some work on it. Before we did anything on it you could barely tell where the plot started and the grass ended. We plan on tilling on the 15th. The garden plot looks rough now but by the time we are done it will look much better.

Love,

Candy