Here is where this plot started just two weeks ago. The small trees had taken over almost completely, making navigating almost impossible and a great way for the chicken hungry fox to hide. Last weekend, we got a nice pair of clippers and in just a few hours had cleared most of the trees out.
Then we tilled and started planting. This plot has eggplant (for the market), zucchini, cantalope, watermelon and tiggers all waiting to emerge. There are also 100 strawberries just waiting to bear fruit in this coral.
I have never tried to grow potatoes before. This plot has about 30 mounds started, which should produce between 6 and 12 potatoes each. If it goes well, we will plant more potatoes next year! This garden is to the south of the house. Last year, Mr. Kemner came over and pulled out a few trees. We found an old home foundation and some pieces of charred looking glass next to the second storm shelter that was here.
Here, also south of the house where the horses were this winter, is also planted some zucchini, summer squash and a whole bunch of butternut. If these all grow, they could take over the entire acreage and then we will have a post that says-Invasion of the butternut vines!!
This space was also overgrown and useless last summer. We did manage to get in here a couple of times and mow, so it was better than it had been in years past, but still pretty overgrown. Now, hopefully, it will just be overgrown with tomatoes and peppers! We have 64 tomatoes planted under those milk jugs and about 24 pepper plants. We will put a second batch of both in in a couple of weeks.
And finally, in the field to the north where we had our entire garden last summer, we Mr. Kemner disked up this patch for us. I think it is about 1/3 of an acre. This will hopefully start sprouting baby corn seeds in about two weeks. We do have a small patch of about 2500 seeds that have started to emerge already. We are planting about 15,000 sweet corn seeds (incredible, trinity, bodacious, kandy korn) and about 5000 popcorn seeds! The native americans used to plant corn, pumpkins and beans together. The pumpkins are supposed to help with weed control and the prickliness of the vines is supposed to help deter the ring tailed rodents that destroyed my corn last year. With this in mind, we did plant about 500 pumpkin seeds in this patch too! Bring on the fall harvest!
