2024 05 09 - Planting plants

Picture: Lone asparagus.

Today was a day of leveling, raking the garden and planting the plants and the pea and bean seeds we just bought. Also I took down the fences around the blue berries and some of those posts.

My wife wanted something for 'her' peas to climb on so I took one of the garden trellises (old bed springs) from the against the compost pile to use for that. Plan is to put up a section of berry fence by the compost for my morning glories to climb on.

This year I am leaving space. Most of my garden is based on 24 inch rows including my first blueberries. This year I planted our tomatoes in the 2nd and 5th row out of the six rows inside the fence. So nothing is planted within three feet of them and they are four feet from each other. Then the trellis went up in one of the center rows, with nothing in the rows on either side. The beans are the only thing that didn't get a lot of space. But they hare a row of onions on one or both sides of them so the beans will <> have the two feet on each side.

Everything fit inside the fence. But the fence came up a couple of feet short so I had to overlap another section over it. I could have had another two rows inside the fence but no real reason to.

I also got the watermelon and zucchini planted.

One of the first years I had the garden, 2010 or so, I planted three crowns of asparagus. It never really did much and I finally put flags where it had been in case it every came back. I do not remember anything last year. Now this year there was one, but not where the crowns had been. A week later I found another one, but again, not where I had planted them.