We had a busy day yesterday; our garden is not that big, we currently just three raised beds, two are 12’ x 4’, and a smaller one that is about 3’ x 8’.
We used cinder blocks for the boxes instead of wood, and went two rows high (approx 15” high.
For the soil, we used - Pete moss, vermiculite, and compost. A third of each.
All the open cells of the cinder blocks are not filled with strawberry plants. In oregon, we had used wood, but all the rain year around, wood doesn’t last very long, so here we used cinder blocks, and are quite pleased with results.
Anyway, made another 9 pints of tomato sauce last night, brings total to 12 pints or 1-1/2 gallons so far this year.
The Walawala onions we picked are dried enough now to prep for storage. The red onions are just now finishing up, pulled all but the three that went to seed. The carrots are doing really good. Pulled a couple yesterday, right now they are about 8” long, and this is the first time I tasted a fresh pulled carrot.
The flavor was really strong, so went and got some ranch dressing, and I really liked it.
We will just pull them as we want to use them through the fall.
Been waiting for the potato plants to start turning yellow (we read that about a week or so after seed, they will yellow and time to pull up) potatoes don’t like super hot days, and are therefore a spring and fall crop. Found this out later.
So it’s been a few weeks since the potatoes flowered, and the plants are still green?
I guess we’ll wait some more and see what happens.
The peppers and green beans finally took hold and have started producing.
Thought about planting a bunch of potatoes mid September, where we had all the onions growing, just need to replenish the compost in the box soil first. We only did 4 plants this year, two in the planter, two in a bucket. The bucket potatoes are done and eaten. It’s the two plants in the cinderblock bed that still hanging on.
