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My garden, week 3 , year 2 |
- bunching onions
- onions
- garlic (scapes are almost ready)
- tomatoes (a variety)
- potatoes (gold fingerlings and red)
- herbs (perennials: thyme, mint, oregano, savory, sage, parsley and annuals (or ones that die in our zone 5 area): cilantro, dill, basil, rosemary, camomile)
- sunchokes
- squash
- goji berry (wont be producing fruit for years)
- cucumbers
- kale (purple seems to be pest resistant)
Pests
I stole my moms arbor with the promise to build her a new one. So far I have only dug holes where her imaginary arbor sits.. oops. Anyway, the arbor in my garden attracts birds, which is not great because they just sit there, ignoring the bugs that eat my potatoes and poop on my beans. I need to get some of those bus station spikes that they put in the rafters. That should look good.. . So the sparrows are a little pesky but what I am really concerned about are these flat bugs that eat my potato leaves (just the yellow fingerlings).
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A bug that likes eating my potatoes... I hate! |
moving on...
Bent Wood Arbor
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Bentwood arbor for a squash |
I cant tell if this looks cute or just crummy. This is how I would construct all of my forts when I was little. Take miss matched pieces of wood/twigs and bind them together using whatever I can. My mom bought me a squash plant that I do not have room for. I can't throw out a potential yummy plant, so I cleared an area in my spill over garden and built a little fort for it. To build a nice, classy bent wood trellis you should look elsewhere. Like in a book. To build mine, keep reading.

Step 1: Find two bendy branches (linden, willow etc. ) and cross them at the top. Then secure with wire. do this twice for the front and the back of your arbor.
Step 2: Reinforce the top with an extra branch.
Step 3: Stick the two sides in the ground and connect them with some side branches. I started with the very top.
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bent wood arbor for a flying saucer squash. |
Some minor updates
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Garlic scape |
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garlic |
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gooseberry |
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wild blackberries |
The gooseberries and blackberries are forming. They will not be ready for at least a month though. When Elo comes to visit me in August we will make jam.
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