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I went out of my friend Pseudonym A's house today and helped her with her garden. She bought this last year, and we put in some fall vegetables on Labor Day.
Today, we ripped up the landscaping cloth from two flower beds, put down better soils, mixed some of the underlying clay up, and then planted one of the beds with candy roaster squash, pie pumpkin, pickling and regular cucumbers, and two kinds of melon. I also planted a corn and a succotash been in each mound, so at least they should be identifiable when those sprout up. I looked over the cabbage, kale, and cauliflower that we'd put in along the wall last year -- most of them were bolting, but they'd done pretty well, so she could definitely place more brassicas in those places.
We swung by her local Lowe's and picked up petunias, three flats of marigolds, six strawberry plants, some potting soil, and black mulch.
Back at the house, we paused to have some lemonade, then spread most of the mulch in the pumpkin bed, potted the strawberries in a multi-pot that the previous homeowners had left, ripped up more landscape cloth from under what might be a camellia, planted the petunia, and then planted the marigolds as edging in that bed.
Lastly, I scattered a lot of different flower seeds -- nasturium, foxglove, sunflower -- and some radish and green pea seeds -- then mulched it. That bed is just going to be catch as catch can this year, I guess.
Afterwards, we sat in the sunroom suitably distanced and ate delivery Japanese food. I might be sore tomorrow (it was about 6 hours of work), but it was a lot of fun.
Today, we ripped up the landscaping cloth from two flower beds, put down better soils, mixed some of the underlying clay up, and then planted one of the beds with candy roaster squash, pie pumpkin, pickling and regular cucumbers, and two kinds of melon. I also planted a corn and a succotash been in each mound, so at least they should be identifiable when those sprout up. I looked over the cabbage, kale, and cauliflower that we'd put in along the wall last year -- most of them were bolting, but they'd done pretty well, so she could definitely place more brassicas in those places.
We swung by her local Lowe's and picked up petunias, three flats of marigolds, six strawberry plants, some potting soil, and black mulch.
Back at the house, we paused to have some lemonade, then spread most of the mulch in the pumpkin bed, potted the strawberries in a multi-pot that the previous homeowners had left, ripped up more landscape cloth from under what might be a camellia, planted the petunia, and then planted the marigolds as edging in that bed.
Lastly, I scattered a lot of different flower seeds -- nasturium, foxglove, sunflower -- and some radish and green pea seeds -- then mulched it. That bed is just going to be catch as catch can this year, I guess.
Afterwards, we sat in the sunroom suitably distanced and ate delivery Japanese food. I might be sore tomorrow (it was about 6 hours of work), but it was a lot of fun.