Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

Hon I got that stuff in and all my buckets are tomatoes, pumpkins, watermelon,
lemon cukes, pots are lettuces, eggplants, tiny tim tomatoes etc.weeks ago. The
finally in is the flowers and herbs that were the last bits. I have been
planting since Mother's Day....then the rains started and now finally the last
bits are done weeds that should have been dealt with weeks ago gone and mulch
laid down on paths between raised beds.

I still need to spend a day pulling in the berry walk but as for vegies...I
planted about 420 square feet of em. Including 14 varieties of tomatoes in 5
colours, 7 types of beans, 4 peppers, 3 onions, 4 lettuce, 4 cauliflowers, 3
cabbage, and then there is all the chard, spinach, beets, carrots, peas, and a
56 day sweet corn....I will believe it when I see it.

In the community garden we have 4 or maybe 5 kinds (the sea pumpkin looks kinda
frail) of pumpkins for the kids on the street, strawberries, sunflowers and a
bean teepee. Vegies are more that covered...they spent a lot of time covered
and survived a few plunges close to zero....seed will be saved off anything that
is beautiful.

I still ache everywhere and I went to the store and picked up another couple of
mints to tuck into the spot that I want the lawn to go away from....I never
really do stop. I got it bad.
I have an edible landscape and usually only do two or three pots of flowers that
are just to appease the neighbours and the moonflowers are going in a pot to
make an instant arch I have to try.

Cheers
Bina

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From: john roberts <johnbdooley@yahoo.com>
To: Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, June 25, 2011 4:21:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Organic_Gardening] it's in finally it's all in....

i noticed u did a lot of work,,yhat s good,,but i didn t see too many things u
olanted ,,that u can eat. down here in Mississippi,,i like to plant more things
to eat than flowers and herbs. like purple hull peas, butterbeans, okra, we
call it okree--some folks call it okraaa--lol--tomatos- well good luck on all
yo flowers--and may the good Lord take a liking to ya
JOHN B

--- On Fri, 6/24/11, binaatthelake <schultzjanet@ymail.com> wrote:

From: binaatthelake <schultzjanet@ymail.com>
Subject: [Organic_Gardening] it's in finally it's all in....
To: Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, June 24, 2011, 5:27 PM

Well between frosts and snow the first week of June...then a downpour pretty
much every day except two and those I worked...but it is done. I had to take
holidays to do it and I had to time it between thunderstorms but I did it. It is
in. I am not doing another blessed thing...I ache everywhere. It is planted,
weeded, and mulched, every pot is filled, the wonderful two inch corsican mints
and wooly thyme that I got for 79 cents each are planted among the stepping
stones by the rain barrels, the old gate is now in my garden to act as a potting
bench, the potatoes in barrels are pretty much topped up, the tomatoes are
staked.....it's finally in.

Hmmmmm.....now what, what to do next now that the vegie gardens are all planted
and ready to go, I still have three days of holidays left...hmmmmm

Oh yeah on tomorrow's list...
weed out the berry hedge, transplant the escapees back into the hedge, clean out
the pond, check the pump and get that going. Then I can weed under the deck to
the front yard and start weeding all of those beds. I think I will weed them out
once and then I will mulch the dickens out of those. Then I have the bake oven
to finish, the garage to clean out, an arbor to build...maybe with that last six
pack of moonflowers...I have a spot for a tree I think a pear, and I am watching
for blueberry bushes to go on sale, I have some lovely composted leaf mold and
composted spruce needles to work into that bed, ......
and if I get that all done....there are still hostas that need to be moved, and
about five more beds that I would eventually like to build, and a hoop house,
and a better potting shed, and I would love to talk to the county about
collecting some wild edibles and medicinals to put into the beds, then there is
the expansion of the patio, the pruning, and more weeding, and more weeding....

a gardener's work is never done....we just dream bigger.
Cheers
from a very stiff and satisfied
Bina

The summer is here, and like all true northern gardener I smell of soil, Off and
liniment...and look slightly crazed.

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