Memorial Day came, which is normally when I would plant the majority of the garden. Most of it was already in this year, so I just had to plant the tomatoes and peppers. Unfortunately a late frost and a long night killed off my pepper and tomato plants that I had started, so I had to buy plants. We put in 20 tomato plants and 32 pepper plants on Saturday.
It was almost 90 degrees when we put the plants in and we had a wedding to attend in the afternoon, so the rush was on to build boxes for the tomatoes, get them set, fill them with dirt, and finally do some planting. We got all the plants in the ground in about an hour and gave them a quick drink while we went to the wedding. Fortunately it would up raining the next day and today, so everything is looking really good.
The garlic went to seed already, which was kind of a surprise for me, as did some of the onions. My onions, which I didn't think was going to make it through the April freezes, is waist high and looking better than the commercial farmer's onions down the road. All the plants look exceptionally good this year, especially considering that it isn't even June yet.
There is still a lot of work to do. I have to get the cattle fencing for the tomatoes cut into 10 foot lengths and put into place. This year I am putting a fence on both sides of the 1 foot wide box to make sure there is lots of support. I also need to put the cages around the 32 peppers. Last year I didn't cage the habaneros but I think they would have benefited from it. I need to replant about 30% of the carrots that didn't germinate. That happened last year too, but the replanting worked out great. Finally I need to finish putting down the walkways between the boxes. The plastic is down, mainly to control the weeds, I just have to cut the boards and nail/screw them.
It looks like it might be the best year yet for the garden. Hopefully I can keep learning and maybe one day make some money at it.
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