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CynthiaWVirginia -> RE: What are you planting this summer? (3/26/2010 2:13:11 PM)
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I'm going to plant an asparagus patch outside my kitchen door. Since I goofed up both knees a few years back removing lots of turf with a shovel to make my veggie garden, I did it the easy way this time...smothered the grass for almost a year with an old large carpet, lol. I plan to have my son take a pickaxe to the soil (again avoiding evil shovel use as much as possible). It was hard to decide to put asparagus here instead of the butterfly bushes I had originally decided on. If the butterfly bushes weren't so expensive, I'd have them all along my fenceline.
The usual tomatoes and lettuce, and I already have the little onion sets and garlic bulbs waiting in the house. I sent off to Henry Fields for the red/purple onions, but lucked out and found the yellows at a grocery store, and the yellows were up to 400% larger. I buy my garlic bulbs in bulk at Sams, they're so cheap there that I haven't planted any in years, but I miss the green garlic tops...so, they're going in the ground this year. I like planting radishes, because they're ready so fast.
I already have 2 well established mint patches, and need to redo my catnip patch. Darned gas company came and redid pipes under the ground leading to my house and used something like a backhoe (however that's spelled) to dig up my catnip to get to the pipes. If I'd had any warning, I would have salvaged some. They're so hard to start from seed. Oh, and I have to keep them protected with a large dog wire cage on top, or my cats roll all over the new plants till they're broken and covered in fur, lol. I open the side door on the cage to harvest some.
Last year I planted some rhubarb, so I still can't harvest any until the following spring. It will be so nice having something else that I don't have to replant each year. Btw, the squirrels love my flower bulbs, and though I started with hundreds, I'm down to only half a dozen or so. [:(]
I plan to plant lots and lots of marigolds, some sunflowers, some sage if I can find any (used to have some years back), and I grabbed over two dozen packets of flower seeds recently that my son deep sixed. Have to find them, lol. Oh, one of the seed packs were turnips. Haven't grown them before and don't especially like them, but...they'll boil up in a veggie soup just fine.
I would love to have a pumpkin patch this year, but I don't want to do a lot of shoveling to remove turf again. Maybe I'll get another large rug and cut a foot wide hole in the middle for the pumpkin plant. <imagines lots of grass growing amongst the pumpkin leaves otherwise, and shudders>
I didn't get a vegetable garden done last year, because in March I had a slip and fall and broke my right leg up pretty well. I never want to see naked bone sticking out where it doesn't belong again, lol. (I've broken bones before but never this badly. Those metal plates and screws hurt more than I expected, needed longer healing time.) Anyway, missing a year has made me really look forward to this year's garden.
I can't believe I let all those raspberries and blackberries rot last year <whimpers>. We're talking at least 2 gallons of them.
At least the birds loved me...I didn't pick my red cherries last year, and there were probably a good 2 gallons worth of those too.
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