Today we fenced in the back side of the garden. This was the most difficult part because of the slope. I am so happy that it is done. We have also begun killing off the grass in the pathways. We are using a tarp and kiddie pool in two areas of the garden to kill off the grass. Here's a picture of the whole garden with the new section of the fence in the center back:
Now for a quick update. The asparagus have sent up some new spears which is great. We have filled in the container with the last portion of soil, so our asparagus are fully planted!
Our strawberries have been turning red. We now have chicken wire up to prevent the birds from getting the strawberries before we do.
We have had a couple of sunny warm days and so most of the plants in our garden have thrived.
We clipped back the bottom leaves from our tomato vines so they do not touch the ground. We are hoping to minimize the diseases and know this helps.
We have harvested our radishes. We have had rather peculiar radishes. The seem to not have fully developed or something is in the soil eating them. We had quite a few duds too.
We noticed last week that our pepper plants were kinda yellow in the leaves. We decided to conduct a little experiment. We watered the pepper on the left with what we are calling Mittleider water because we have dissolved a tablespoon of Mittleider weekly feed fertilizer into a gallon of water. We did this because the weekly feed was not dissolving when we watered the garden and so we thought about using it like a liquid fertilizer.
We watered the pepper of the left with Mittleider water and the one on the right with regular water. Since doing it the plant on the left has greened up and looks happier than the one on the right.
Here's a closeup. Notice the difference in the greenness of the leaves. The one in the foreground did not get the Mittleider water.
Happy with these results we expanded the experiment and watered half of the bean plants with Mittleider water. We will post the results as we continue this experiment.
