Week Three

Rennie

Raised Bed built by Rennie

What is left of the pavilion

Tomato Plant

Tomato Bed (Big Boys, Cherry, and more)

First Banana Pepper

Crooked Neck Squash

This past week has been very productive. We finished taking down the pavilion and pulling out nails and screws from the boards. This was a very time consuming process to say the least. As Rennie was building the raised bed (see the picture above) I continued to tend to the garden. This week I turned up the tomato bed and planted ten plants (three different varieties). I am worried that the tomatoes will not do very well. They are in mediocre soil (mostly clay) and in constant sunlight. When I left today they were looking pretty sorry. 

I am glad Lydia is there now because she is offering lots of advice to help the vegetables become more prosperous and healthy. She got some hay and was placing it around each of the plants when I left today to help the plants keep their moisture. I hate that we could not till up the sunken beds because there is already grass growing amongst the plants. I am still finding bricks and bits of broken glass throughout the beds. 

We have not built a compost bin yet but it is in the works. The guys in the pie lab have been saving their coffee grains and we have a large pile of grass clippings and scraps of vegetables for the bin. Lydia suggested we have a vermicomposting bin and I completely agree... partially because that is something I actually know about and I know it yields compost quickly.

I have the next week off so I won't post for a while. 

Justinn