Starting a New Bed

Looks GREAT!  4/3/11 This is Brenda Lee

4/15/11 - WHAT!?  Got a fungus!  so... replant

As you can see from the photos I got a real bad fungus in the pole beans.  The leaves just fell off!  As I said this blog is about my learning.  Anywho so I ripped all those plants out & put in new ones.

This is just the bed & soil

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Here you can see the sectioning off & that circle in there is my drip line

Now I've planted & put back the bamboo teepee

I put in Blue Lake & Romano pole beans.  Also my sage & Roman Chamomile I had planted there were not very happy, so as long as I was going to re-do the beans I might as well do those too.  So I moved the sage to the herb garden containers & put the chamomile in another bed.

I have planted a LOT of cucumber plants.  Last year we just didn't have enough for the two of us.  So, in typical Cindi fashion, I probably planted waaay too many this year.  That's ok, we like pickles.  Uhhh I don't know how to make pickles.  No problem, plenty of time.

Leo - see his cucumbers - easiest to see on right side

 
As you can see the plants are barely 6" high.  I have access to the worlds greatest library.  So I got a few pickling how to books & now I have a plan.  Of course reading all those recipes let me know right away that I don't have enough dill plants!  So I replaced the sage & chamomile with 4 dill plants.  It takes 20 days before you even see if the seeds germinated....  Oh well, next year I'll know so much more & get this timing down better.

Dinner salad tonight! This is getting towards the end of the lettuce I planted in December.  But still good.

& the first of the year tomatoes...

Please don't worry about the goodness of our garden - we have our very own inspector.  This is Cleco.  She LOVES to sniff & sometimes eat what we bring in.  That's chives she's actually chewing on there & yes, it's one of her favorite foods - go figure!  She will start meowing LOUDLY the minute I bring in anything until I let her smell it.  And if perhaps she is napping when I bring in things & have washed them, that's not good & hardly is worth her time.

Cleco