Enjoy The Zombie-Free Garden

[elfs]

The Garden Is Made

I have started on the garden. A couple of spots on the grid are still empty; I haven't found anyone selling horseradish, for example, and that's what one of the grids is allocated for. This is only the largest of the garden spots, 8x4. There's still a pair of 4x2's on the western wall that I still need to till & fill.

I planted corn, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, spinach, lettuce, bell peppers, anaheim chilis, carrots, celery, and mayan onions. The pumpkin area is overgrown with weeds, so that'll be fun, and the strawberries will need to be replanted to make room for the tomatoes, which go in two weeks from now.

I also want to get the herb buckets up and planted. Unfortunately, I can't do that until I clean the back porch off, and then clean and paint the deck above it. Lots of work to do. It was a rough, wet, miserable winter.

Oh, and if you look at the full-size image, you can see that my garden is well-defended from zombies, too.

Now, if only I knew how to deal with the damned slugs. The traps were not very effective last year. Then again, last year sucked as a growing season.

Comments

[lemur123.livejournal.com]

lol!

Once the pumpkins get a head start on the weeds, they will crush them like a bulldozer.

A friend in NZ has had success laying down layers of newsprint on top of stomped-down weeds (assuming your local papers use vegetable-based inks), weighted down with grass clippings and other mulch.

[bldrnrpdx.livejournal.com]

I should put up pictures of my horseradishes. They're looking rather fine, having come back from last year. I'm hoping to have the house and yard in enough order in the next month or so to have a horseradish party and dig up the first one of the three. We pulled up the only one I had a couple of years ago before the winter. These are older and have been through a whole winter, so I'm excited to see if they got bigger and if they taste different than that first one.

[wyrdone.livejournal.com]

Slug Trap: Cheap american beer + salt. place in small bowl and cover with larger bowl propped up to allow access to inner bowl such that inner bowl is still protected from rain/watering.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

I've seen that done with used plastic sodapop bottles. I'll try it something this week, if I can find a place that sells small bottles of Schweppes soda water, and can convince the girls to down a few Italian Sodas.