Memorial Day we spent tilling the garden space that was waiting for late crops. Now we are planting it. Got over 200 pepper plants put in yesterday. Got the sweet corn planted. The onions and leeks are doing great, as are the mixed lettuces.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
First Pics of New Garden
Memorial Day we spent tilling the garden space that was waiting for late crops. Now we are planting it. Got over 200 pepper plants put in yesterday. Got the sweet corn planted. The onions and leeks are doing great, as are the mixed lettuces.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
2009 Season Begins!
Well, so much has happened since last Spring!
First off, we decided to move to rural NE Iowa. We found an old farmhouse we liked and that was it. It took all summer to move all the farm stuff and household goods, so we had no garden in 2008, other than donating our seedlings to our former community garden.
We got to Iowa by late July. I had been diagnosed with a serious medical problem and so the Fall was taken up with that, and with getting ready for Winter.
In November 2008 we got a huge space plowed up.
In Spring 2009 we enlarged it to half an acre, and had it manured and disked by a farmer neighbor. Then we rented a tiller for our tractor and went over it 4 times. We had the soil tested and added sulphur and nitrogen. The soil is very good here, great corn land, top-rated.
So far I have planted onions, garlic, and potatoes. Am trying to get the peas and carrots and beets in now. Will take pics today once the light improves.
First off, we decided to move to rural NE Iowa. We found an old farmhouse we liked and that was it. It took all summer to move all the farm stuff and household goods, so we had no garden in 2008, other than donating our seedlings to our former community garden.
We got to Iowa by late July. I had been diagnosed with a serious medical problem and so the Fall was taken up with that, and with getting ready for Winter.
In November 2008 we got a huge space plowed up.
In Spring 2009 we enlarged it to half an acre, and had it manured and disked by a farmer neighbor. Then we rented a tiller for our tractor and went over it 4 times. We had the soil tested and added sulphur and nitrogen. The soil is very good here, great corn land, top-rated.
So far I have planted onions, garlic, and potatoes. Am trying to get the peas and carrots and beets in now. Will take pics today once the light improves.
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