Greetings, blockchain gardeners! I hope you all are feeling better than I am today; I'm a little under the weather. However, that didn't stop me from going out to the garden a breaking a little sweat. It hasn't rained in a few days so a little manual watering was required. You can see behind me are 2 different kinds of corn stalks, a large variety and a small one! The large one is about my height so far but the small one will not grow anymore. It's in bloom and already has a jilote growing.
There were originally supposed to be 5 but the rest never germinated. I think it's too late to try again but that's ok. Corn is a heavy feeder and I don't really want to deplete my soil so much.
What is my garden supposed to look like?
This is my #gardenjournal. Sorry, it's not that pretty. It mainly serves as a reference so that I can properly rotate my crops for healthy soil.
This is only my third year keeping track like this but I like it! It's the sort of structure I needed. Here's the very first year I did it. Most of it is colored in because that's how I was checking them off as being planted already.
Back to the real garden!
The vast majority of the over 70 beans I planted were either devoted by rollie pollies or succumbed to the very dry spring we had. Luckily, I was offered some more beans from my horticulture job. I was given the Cherokee Trail of Tears, provider, and rattlesnake varieties which are all pole beans. They were inoculated with nitrogen-fixing bacteria so they will restore the soil's fertility. I was afraid the same thing would happen to these heirloom beans as well, especially since I ran out of coffee grounds for protection (I don't drink coffee myself). It looks like most of them made it though.
I figure the pepper plants don't really need the protection anymore. This big one (rattle pepper) certainly does not. It is over a foot tall. I wonder why this one exploded in growth while the others have not.
I think tomorrow I will try to mix some organic fertilizer and apply it to these late bloomers. The fertilizer is just lettuce that I left to break down in a 5 gallon bucket of water. The lettuce was dumped in my alley during the winter and was grown locally and hydroponically! So I didn't let it go to waste.
It's time for raspberries! I picked the first few yesterday and from now on there will be more every day
All this talk of fruits is making me hungry so I think I'll wrap up my garden update now. There will be more developments to come regarding some other interesting plants I have that aren't really doing anything at the moment such as ground cherries,tinguaraque tomatoes, turban squash, and cotton!
I really like seeing other people's gardens and learning from their experiences too. So here's a shout out to my friends who like to garden as well:
Show us your gardens!
