Plot Wars: Garden Plot

In deference to the holidays, I will not be posting food related articles this week. It will be back next week, We had a few food experimentations that were not posted yet. So wait for it!!! They were quite tasty.

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A few months back, I posted about making our own compost for a garden plot and the effort it took to clean out the clay-like soil in said plot.

The compost pile had decomposed and we had flattened it out to form our garden. We subdivided it into 5 sections so that we can have passageways to walk in the garden without harming the plants. We also added an extension near the walls for crawling plants.



Don't mind the net! It's to prevent birds and snails and other insects from eating the leaves and stems of our plants especially the lettuce.

In the first section, the one with the black net, it's carrots and radishes. The black net is a recent addition after half of our radishes were cut. The carrots have not sprouted yet. We thought at first that the culprits were ants or leaf miners but since the stems are just cut off and left behind, we ignored that.  We observed it yesterday and caught the birds in the act of peeking stems, hence the net.

The 2nd section, the one with green circles, it's bell peppers and onions. Still small though and at least they have not fallen to animal cruelty but we still placed the screens to prevent the snails from eating them.

The 3rd and 4th section with blue nets are planted with lettuce and garlic and ginger. The nets are there to prevent the leaf miner and snails from eating the lettuce leaf. What's the use of having lettuce if the leaves are full of holes, right? So there. Anyway, we also have mongo beans beside the lettuce nets and I say that they are quite healthy looking with big leaves and all though some have holes. These are already flowering and some even have mongo bean pods already, so a harvest is in order soon.

Lettuce, Ginger, Mongo Bean

The 5th section is planted with tomatoes and alyssum. The tomatoes are also growing tall and have started to flower as well. So no more buying of tomatoes from the market soon. We hope to see the alyssum growing so we can replant some outside the walls.

Alyssum, tomatoes and watermelon

The extension plot, we planted string beans there but the beans did not grow, but in our compost pile, some watermelon seeds sprouted, so we transplanted them before we totally flatten the compost pile and planted it with radishes.

So that's the update on the plots. Will let you know if it survives the summer and if the carrots will grow and the flowers will sprout and if the harvest is as good as it should be since everything is growing well and fast.



Daghang salamat sa pagbasa!!!

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