This is what I planted today. I recently realized that while Botanical Interests has very pretty packaging, there's no guarantee things are GMO-free unless labeled that way, so I probably need to shift brands.
I have a 4' x 4' garden bed that a community organization put in for me and then filled with steer manure and put in out-of-season plants. Um ... thanks? I've since then amended it with actual soil, let it age, and put in a basil plant and some beans. Today I planted in the other part of the box some chard and lettuce. I have some beds that I built that are about 10" high, 3' wide and 6' long. (My neighbors though I was building coffins!) I planted three short rows of carrots and then beets the long ways for the rest of it. In a couple of weeks I'll plant some more carrots in the bed where I put one sweet potato plant and it blew up. Looks like this.
The beans I planted earlier seem to be growing ok, even saw some blossoms on some.
The sweet potatoes ... hm, when do I harvest them? i keep using the leaves for cooking and want to extend that out.
The Bradford watermelon has set some fruit that I put some pine needle mulch under ... we'll see if it works out. The other watermelon seemed to be doing well but now is showing some mildew or other problem.
And the okra is just absolutely thriving. Getting to the point of it growing practically before my eyes. I love okra! So good for my gardening self-esteem.
In planning, I'm hauling loads of horse manure to age ... the problem is it's mixed with woodchips. So gotta give it enough time.
Next year I want sweet potatoes all over the front yard -that would be a good place for their sprawliness and beauty. Maybe by then I will also have put in some tropical vegetation and a rain garden, but I definitely want sweet potatoes and some other thing there that I want in large quantities. Sunflowers? Yes, but something else edible.
