We are beaching it right now. Beautiful weather! Planting corn when we get home. For us gardening starts in earnest this week! This has been a great break!
I didn't know but found out recently that asparagus and strawberries ..love each other just planted two new asparagus beds yesterday with extra large two year old roots...Last week was a big week and this week will probably be as well. It's an awesome feeling to look at my list and mark things off!
This week I'm starting a new asparagus bed, two new strawberry beds, planting more blueberry bushes, extending one row of blackberries, planting more apple and mulberry trees, putting cardboard down and mulching around all our berries and vineyard. I'm also installing more fencing, although it's not my favorite thing to do, but I'm thankful we have the livestock that requires it.
I plan to start quite a bit of our garden this week. I'm also probably going to plant more potatoes, onions, and garlic than I originally planted.
If I get time, I also want to start a new, much bigger herb garden. I think I'm going to go with a cottage garden theme, pretty yet useful. I've also decided to plant herbs around our pool. I'm hopeful it will keep mosquitoes away during evening swims.
I hope you all have a wonderful, blessed week!
Haven't tried it yet...fingers crossed that it really works..we get so many baby strawberries we have to move them..so we are going for itOh my! I love that idea @hd5574 ! I fight kochia in my asparagus bed every year, and I want to start more asparagus and strawberries. Perfect!
I didn't know but found out recently that asparagus and strawberries ..love each other just planted two new asparagus beds yesterday with extra large two year old roots...
We have so many baby strawberries coming off our plants that we are going to try a living strawberry mulch in the new asparagus beds the asparagus should come right on up through them...and berries should shade the weeds ..if it works that will be a big win
I finally got over being sleepy. Wracking my brain about what to cook for supper. I was going to cook cabbage and smoked sausage, but the cabbage didn't look very good, the goats will enjoy it. I put it in the fridge in the shop and forgot about it, oh well. I decided on green beans, potatoes and smoked sausage. I just put it on so Dh will eat a little later. I used one of my Carote pans, so it won't be like it would be if cooked in cast iron. I moved away from cast iron a couple of years ago because it got so heavy for my aging hands.
Oh, I'm already seeing results. It's the reason why I keep going. 1.25 miles isn't that much. If I can get pass the halfway point, I typically can finish. When I can get more speed, I'll start adding more distance. But I need to be doing that 1.25 mile in a half hour first.Kyrsyan, at our age, it can take a full month of walking at least half a mile several days a week before results will be seen. If you can do a mile every other day (and less on other days), plus walking at least 6 days a week, you'll see a difference in your ankles in about 14 days.
I know . . . I used to see some results in 5 days, but everything physical just takes longer. Be of good cheer! At least you can walk. I know folks who are in PT and getting down the hall to the bathroom is a major accomplishment.
We don't use manure...we use fish...it doesn't burn...we have had asparagus here for 25 years... we are replacing...as some of our oldest crowns that are on their way out....we are in an area that it actually grows wild on then sides of the roads..problem with that idea is with the asparagus - they are REAL HEAVY feeders - you should be doing a surface dressing of strait manure a few times a year - strawberries would have a hard time surviving that application - good sign you aren't feeding enough is the bed spread of the crowns - shouldn't have any void spaces between the plantings ......