Remembering the 2013 Garden

by Garden-Wellington

Obviously I have not taken the time to write about the 2013 garden.  Because a few people do read this blog (thank you), I will put in some updates in case they are helpful to anyone.  We learn new things each year as we try various new methods and experience new weather conditions.  Overall, the garden did pretty well, with a few setbacks I will explain in individual posts.  Please see the posts:Garden Reflections, Deep Mulching, Squash, Tomatoes, Potatoes, Ducks and Co ...

Deep Mulching 2013

by Garden-Wellington

After viewing the Back To Eden film, we decided to use this approach on all our garden beds.  We've found a few places to attain free wood mulch, and covered all of our beds with 3-4 inches of wood mulch.  Our results were both good, bad and indifferent, as follows, and I will outline some of my questions/answers and my plan for 2014.GOOD!  We watered much less.  Most areas were watered about once a week.  We watered each area for about 8 hours with an oscillating type o ...

Tomatoes 2013

by Garden-Wellington

TOMATOES are always my most prized garden treat.  This year I tried some new varieties and some old ones, and had mixed results.  I'll outline my thoughts on each.  I ended up with nine different varieties.One experiment:  I've always rotated my tomato beds, and have not planted tomatoes in any bed that had tomatoes, peppers or potatoes in the previous year, or preferably two years.  Last year I'd planted my indeterminate tomatoes in a row in the NE corner, and it was su ...

Squash 2013

by Garden-Wellington

I enjoy squash, particularly a good, winter squash.  In fact, maybe I'll cook some tonight for supper!  But, in the past years I've had mixed results in the squash beds, and quite a challenge controlling SQUASH BUGS and CUCUMBER BEETLES.Lakota SquashThis year I planted 8 varieties of squash:  2 summer squash (1 yellow and 1 green zucchini), 2 each of these winter squash:  Winter Sweet REBA Acorn (bush variety), Burgess Buttercup, Sweet Meat, Long Pie Pumpkin, Nutterbutter But ...