I fired up Mr. P's roto tiller and gave the weedy garden the once over … again. This makes the third tilling. I keep knocking down the weeds that sprout.
I have begun to obsess about the details. I'm TRYING to boss the weeds around:
Peas in the rows, onions in the weedy patch below. The onions are so young and the weeds so small, I don't want to disturb them yet by hand weeding. But that is pretty much what the whole garden looked like this morning. Thousands of little chickweed seedlings. Notice the NAME of the weed has weed in it! Oh, and that chaotic looking trellis is my own work.
(You are taking responsibility for that monstrosity?)
Well, someone has to. I had higher hopes for its esthetics, but alas, I had the dickens of a time finding willows along the road that were long enough to do what I originally had in mind. In the end, it was… how can I make this thing work??? Its job will be to hold pole bean vines. I think it will, it just won't be charming to look at WHILE it is doing its job.
Those are peas and spinach growing just inside the fence. I'm thinking of finding some deer proof flowers to plant just outside the fence there where I pulled all the grass and weeds. I read on several web sites that deer don't much care for morning glories. I wonder if that is true? Anyone have experience with that??
This large area is the part I'm having trouble with.
I don't know WHERE I want to plant things. I keep changing my mind, second guessing my decisions, and generally dithering about plant placement. This is not a huge garden, but it is WAY more real estate than I have been used to for many years now, and frankly, I'm intimidated by it.
Those sticks along the fence are thornless blackberries from S. I think most of them are going to make it. I weeded them the other day and mulched the daylights out of them because the weeds were taking over in a very alarming way. I raked that hay from the floor of the barn near the hay bales. I'm going to need LOTS of mulch. But I don't have a good source for it. I may have to do some scrounging.
But, things are coming along. I wonder what it will all look like at the end of July?
I have begun to obsess about the details. I'm TRYING to boss the weeds around:
Peas in the rows, onions in the weedy patch below. The onions are so young and the weeds so small, I don't want to disturb them yet by hand weeding. But that is pretty much what the whole garden looked like this morning. Thousands of little chickweed seedlings. Notice the NAME of the weed has weed in it! Oh, and that chaotic looking trellis is my own work.
(You are taking responsibility for that monstrosity?)
Well, someone has to. I had higher hopes for its esthetics, but alas, I had the dickens of a time finding willows along the road that were long enough to do what I originally had in mind. In the end, it was… how can I make this thing work??? Its job will be to hold pole bean vines. I think it will, it just won't be charming to look at WHILE it is doing its job.
Those are peas and spinach growing just inside the fence. I'm thinking of finding some deer proof flowers to plant just outside the fence there where I pulled all the grass and weeds. I read on several web sites that deer don't much care for morning glories. I wonder if that is true? Anyone have experience with that??
This large area is the part I'm having trouble with.
I don't know WHERE I want to plant things. I keep changing my mind, second guessing my decisions, and generally dithering about plant placement. This is not a huge garden, but it is WAY more real estate than I have been used to for many years now, and frankly, I'm intimidated by it.
Those sticks along the fence are thornless blackberries from S. I think most of them are going to make it. I weeded them the other day and mulched the daylights out of them because the weeds were taking over in a very alarming way. I raked that hay from the floor of the barn near the hay bales. I'm going to need LOTS of mulch. But I don't have a good source for it. I may have to do some scrounging.
But, things are coming along. I wonder what it will all look like at the end of July?