Here we are...The Farmer Girls! Enjoy some lemon mint water in the garden deciding everything that I have done wrong in my planning and planting. It was such a beautiful day so I didn't get too upset over my mistakes. I do however have to find a home for the horse radish that Himselfs Herself purchased. As I had completely forgotten how invasive they are.
Miscommunication between the garden Nazi's and the Submissive One has resulted in an over abundance of cucumbers.
Himself is not agreeable to any further tillage, so I hoed yet another bed next to the house and have planted the seedlings in there.
Today, I am going to hang strings from the header of porch that will drop to the ground using a criss cross pattern, thus giving the cucumbers a trellace of sorts to grow up. This will keep them from spreading all over the yard.
I am also going to spread a little bit of fertilizer along side of all of the little ones to give them a bit of a head start since I wasn't diligent in my composting. I would like to get the compost pile moved and established in it's final place. Hopefully, I can get all of this done and the grass cut!
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I didn't get my compost pile started soon enough either so I just tilled in a mess of horse manure this year on top of last years chicken manure so it wouldn't be so hot for the plants. I did however find this fabulous stuff, Royal Arabian Plant Tonic, it has worked wonders on everything I've set in the ground so far. It's 100% organic, which was a huge purchase point for me and it's made locally, another big point for me.
How can you have to many cucumbers when there are so many people willing to take them off your hands? :)
Do you have a horse manure source?
And where would one purchase this Royal Arabian Plant Tonic?
Too many cukes...I have the tiniest gardens.
I put in a new bed of cukes next to my back porch and if they survive the rain the other day, I will be hanging string for them to grow up today.
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