nomifyle
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A few days ago my yellow squash plants looked great, yesterday they look awful, something has been eating on them. I've gotten 5 tiny squash from them, I sliced one and put it on a sandwich, and it tasted good. One I gave to our main nanny goat who is showing her age, she loved it too.
This year we planted more than usual, as many people have done. This is a big learning curve for us or rather me. In two of the raised beds I planted tomatoes, each bed is 8' long and 3' wide. DH had me plant a back row and then stagger a second row. This is not working out. The tomato plants are huge and its like a jungle and will be problematic to pick tomatoes. Also the space between the raised beds is too narrow. I don't think when we put the garden to bed that I can get DH to move the beds farther apart, but I can get in there and level out the ground more and put gravel between the beds. Its so uneven between the beds that I have a hard time not falling on my face. DH is will to do a lot of things but I can't seem to get my ideas across very well because when he's finished something its not what I had envisioned.
Another issue with the raised bed garden that has not worked well has been that he put the fence right up to the side of the beds and I can't pick from that side, only in the middle of the jungle. He has agreed to move the fence in the fall. And besides the raised beds being only one board high, which he's willing to add two more boards high, I'm going to make a couple of beds with concrete blocks three blocks high, maybe that height will be better for my back, but I'm not convinced.
As the garden is right now its hard for me to work in it more than a few minutes a day, bending over makes my head feel like its going to fall off. That added to the fact that I'm allergic to most things outside.
judy
This year we planted more than usual, as many people have done. This is a big learning curve for us or rather me. In two of the raised beds I planted tomatoes, each bed is 8' long and 3' wide. DH had me plant a back row and then stagger a second row. This is not working out. The tomato plants are huge and its like a jungle and will be problematic to pick tomatoes. Also the space between the raised beds is too narrow. I don't think when we put the garden to bed that I can get DH to move the beds farther apart, but I can get in there and level out the ground more and put gravel between the beds. Its so uneven between the beds that I have a hard time not falling on my face. DH is will to do a lot of things but I can't seem to get my ideas across very well because when he's finished something its not what I had envisioned.
Another issue with the raised bed garden that has not worked well has been that he put the fence right up to the side of the beds and I can't pick from that side, only in the middle of the jungle. He has agreed to move the fence in the fall. And besides the raised beds being only one board high, which he's willing to add two more boards high, I'm going to make a couple of beds with concrete blocks three blocks high, maybe that height will be better for my back, but I'm not convinced.
As the garden is right now its hard for me to work in it more than a few minutes a day, bending over makes my head feel like its going to fall off. That added to the fact that I'm allergic to most things outside.
judy