Showing posts with label tomatoes garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tomatoes garden. Show all posts

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Weekend gardening plans

Collected about fifty gallons of water from this morning's downpour. At our house, the rain started pounding about 7:30 this morning (just in time for me to try and load the kids in the car, thank you very much) and was done by 8:30 or 9:00. In just that short time, the buckets filled up with about fifty gallons of water. I definitely need to refine this system so I can get more water collected and stored. We are trying to begin planning now for next year's planting, which will hopefully include a lot more fruit trees and berry bushes.

The quick rain clearing into a nice sunny day seems to be a great trend for the garden. Everything is growing well except for one type of corn, but it was seed we bought several years ago so a I am not suprised that it has not come up. My wife has bought some more tomato plants to put in place of the not-corn. We have big plans for the tomatoes. Should be putting up lots and lots of sauce this year.

The weekend will really consist of just Sunday since we have a soccer game for the kids and a parade to go to on Saturday. Here're a few things I hope to get done:

  • clear more away from the pear tree to keep the squirrels off
  • clean more of the dirt around the peach tree and possibly use some extra to form a little well around it
  • strenghten the fence with some extra wire that is out by the old garage.
  • plant the okra that I started in the house with the girls
  • plant the seeds from the cantaloupe we ate yesterday around the garden

To do in the coming weeks

  • plant some garlic
  • get mulch for around the blueberry bushes