The Weekly Digs #158
We had family visiting us this week. As they visited, they helped us out with a couple of projects. The main one that I was so excited to get done is that we expanded our garden fencing.
The garden fence around our first garden was 130ft x 120ft. We are doubling the garden space by going from 10,000 square feet of growing space to 20,000 square feet. So the fencing will be about double in size. 130ft x 230ft.
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For this year, with the kids now wanting to have their own garden spaces over in the new garden, I wanted to make sure we got it done so that wild and even our domesticated animals didn’t come and eat it all. Cam had the week off of work and with family willing to help, I said let’s get that done!
It took three days but they finished! All except for the door. I’ll do a seperate blog post with more of the details of how the fencing was done. It’s pretty simple but very effective at keeping out animals.
Other news in the garden:
#1 Peas are coming up!
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#2 The kids wanted to get some plants started for their gardens. They planted in soil blocks some tomatoes (sunrise bumblebee, brandywine, black cherry, kelloggs breakfast) , cucumbers (beit alpha), marigolds (brocade mix), and arugula (common).
#3 Asparagus is also popping up! We are in year two. I’ve read you can either leave them alone another year to build a stronger root system, or you can harvest for about one week and then let them go. I haven’t really decided what we’ll do. I think I’d like to try at least one or two though!
#4 My sister in law, my kids, and their cousins all helped to plant potatoes! It got done super fast because of so many helpers. I still need to give them a layer of compost on top and some mulch for the aisles. We planted Kennebec variety, all left over from last year’s harvest.
#5 We had another night of hard frost. The weather forecasters said it will be 32ºF as a low and we got down to 24ºF according to my garden thermometer. It’s a tiny bit frustrating because I should have taken in my cosmo flowers but they froze in their soil blocks.
The good news is that I did take in my pepper starts and covered my new asparagus with a double layer of row cover. Thankfully, it was just flowers that we lost and they are easily restarted.
All my other seedlings did great!
Turkeys:
Our mama turkey’s poults are hatching! We saw three in her nesting box today but when I went to get a picture she had them all hiding under her. Hopefully I can get a picture by next week.
