Monday, May 18, 2015

Community garden progress

On Sat. May 16 I planted another round of tomatoes to bring the garden total to about 29.  A couple from last weekend had died - little ones that probably had some unseen damping off when i planted them.   I replaced them with new ones.  Also, I planted 2 basil plants, 6 garlic cloves and about 40 onion sets.  We got rain today so the soil is in pretty good shape.

I will need more crampons and weed mat.   Maybe some straw mulch to cover up non-mat spots.   I gave up on cutting slits in the weed mat for the tomatoes - too much work, too many crampons, too much damage to the mats.  So I am now just putting the tomatoes between mats.  But I am keeping the mats closer together than last year.

I still don't have the whole garden covered but I have a couple of weeks before it will get to be a problem with weeds.

I really want to get the new tomatoes all in ground on weekend of May 30.

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