Garden Journal
Jul. 12th, 2013 09:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hrjMy tomatoes outgrew the little wire cage I set up when I planted them. Today I got a much larger, more extensive expand-as-you-go support cage and managed to tame them a little. I'm almost at the point where I can harvest every day ... and the season's just getting started. Time for a garden survey:
* swiss chard (lots, half a dozen plants seems to be optimum)
* red onions (as many as I can use, but I think I should put in a second wave for later)
* artichokes (half a dozen so far, I think about 4 plants would do me for all I need)
* green beans (never enough for a whole serving, not sure this is a good use of space)
* cantelope (barely surviving, not sure why it's unhappy)
* cucumber (1 so far, several more on the way, I think 3-4 plants would do me)
* zucchini (2 plants, nothing produced yet but some promising flowers, maybe the deluge will come later?)
* bell pepper (4 plants, just starting to set, we'll see what the output is)
* eggplant (2 surviving plants, one has set four fruits but the other has yet to start flowering, I like eggplant so I think the optimum is going to be 4 or 6)
* tomatoes (2 cherry, 2 regular, as noted above, almost at the point of "as many as I want", unless I plan to preserve, this may be the optimum number of plants)
I ran out of space long before I ran out of things I wanted to plant. With the automatic watering system, the upkeep isn't too bad. But I'll need to get a major headstart on building more beds for next year. Not a last-minute scramble like this year.
* swiss chard (lots, half a dozen plants seems to be optimum)
* red onions (as many as I can use, but I think I should put in a second wave for later)
* artichokes (half a dozen so far, I think about 4 plants would do me for all I need)
* green beans (never enough for a whole serving, not sure this is a good use of space)
* cantelope (barely surviving, not sure why it's unhappy)
* cucumber (1 so far, several more on the way, I think 3-4 plants would do me)
* zucchini (2 plants, nothing produced yet but some promising flowers, maybe the deluge will come later?)
* bell pepper (4 plants, just starting to set, we'll see what the output is)
* eggplant (2 surviving plants, one has set four fruits but the other has yet to start flowering, I like eggplant so I think the optimum is going to be 4 or 6)
* tomatoes (2 cherry, 2 regular, as noted above, almost at the point of "as many as I want", unless I plan to preserve, this may be the optimum number of plants)
I ran out of space long before I ran out of things I wanted to plant. With the automatic watering system, the upkeep isn't too bad. But I'll need to get a major headstart on building more beds for next year. Not a last-minute scramble like this year.
