Thursday, July 23, 2009

Randy's mix



Randy, a very nice gardener in our community garden, is always spraying his plants with a homemade concoction. Everything in his garden looks so great, so it must work. It's sure to keep critters away, especially those little white flies that gather on tomato plants (I forget the name).

I asked Randy for the recipe so here it is. (And the plants have great breath, too!)

Randy's anti-critter concoction

In a bucket mix:
1 tbsp canola oil
2 tbsp mouthwash
1 tbsp baby shampoo

Fill the rest of the container with one quart of water. Pour into spray bottle.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Amuck with muck.

Here is the compost pile Bruce told us about. It's a ways away from our plots so I had to take the wheel barrow down and load it up a few times. I met a man walking his puppy. At first he didn't know I was there (I was behind the trees in the muck and all) and he was talking up a storm to his puppy. It was cute to see. (I didn't take any photos of him.)

Bruce told us to keep piling compost on our potatoes, and we did. He said it would make them taste good and grow well. We put the compost on everything believing it would be true for all our plants.

The last photo is our garden on June 14. Things started to take off and we have the stakes in for our tomatoes.

I guess it was at this point we realized we sort of crammed too much into one small plot.

Live and learn....












Monday, July 13, 2009

Early days...

These shots are from our first days of planting. They were taken in late on June 1. Ok, so we got a late start.



Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Reminds me of a favorite poem

The Red Wheelbarrow
by William Carlos Williams

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so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.


(OK, so this is green and not red, and there are no chickens. Still, it was a rainy day and it is a wheel barrow! And it did make me think of the poem, which is lovely, don't you agree?)

Sunday, July 5, 2009

The lay of the land



Our plot is so small (about 10 ft x 10 ft) but this is the way we've planned it. It's very cute.