2012 Garden Log

There is some garlic left from last year. I will leave that and harvest next August or September.

Plan

• 40 Buckets on the roof
• 4 4x4 beds on the ground

I need to get tomato cages for all the tomato plants.

A big problem I had with the onions last year is that they were overpowered by weeds. Apparently this is a common problem with onions, I want to try countering it by inter cropping with the soybeans. Hopefully this will also keep more of the bugs away from the soybeans.

Research inter-cropping. Try planting basil and oregano in with the tomatoes.

Notes

Started tomatoes and celery indoor. They started slow because I didn't keep them wet enough. Of the 60ish tomato seeds I planted only about 30 sprouted. I picked up a few more with the paper towel/plastic bag method, but I need more work on this next year. I lost a few celery sprouts because I wasn't keeping the soil moist enough, missed one day of watering and they couldn't take it. After I started using a lot more water, a few of the tomato seeds sprouted (weeks after being planted). Lesson - use more water than you think you need.

Got the new garden beds set up on 5/5 and planted the potatoes. 5/7 moved celery outside, planted half the carrots (direct sow). 5/11 Planted the rest of the carrots and planted the rutabaga both were direct sow.

Plants

• Roma Tomatoes 40 on roof
• Soybeans 16 on ground (64)
• Carrots 16 on ground (144)
• Potatoes have their own container
• Celery 8 on ground (32)
• Rutabaga 8 on ground
• Basil 8 on ground
• Oregano 8 on ground

Fall

• Onions
• Garlic