06-13-2014, 11:22 PM
I usually always plant a pretty big vegetable garden, I haven't even started mine yet this year. I have two acres of land, but lots of oak trees and pine trees so only a kind of minimum amount of areas that get eight hours or sun per day. I have a really long gravel driveway & my snow plow guy pushes all that gravel into my only area where I get great amounts of sun on a daily basis. This is the same guy who actually bush-wacked my great perennial garden "Thom"... Since he is WAY cheaper than any other lawnmower guy or snow plower guy I have to put up with him.
So I'm now planning my garden to hopefully put in this weekend. In upstate NY we have really had an absolutely horrendously cold and nasty winter, usually the temperatures go on and off between freezing and semi-cold (like 30 degrees or so)... this year it really seemed to me like the coldest on a continual basis ever. And because my little Roamie Doodle Dandy (my dog) was so sick I had to be in NY all winter. I'm going to be "petless" for quite some time, although, there is a huge event here in my area all weekend at many places, to try and place homeless dogs in area homes. I am going to try really hard not to attend.
So I'm trying to figure out what to plant / what not to plant. I think in many years I have only had one cucumber crop that didn't taste bitter, so I'm scrapping them right off my list. I love eggplant & plant the little white ones, I think they might be called Japanese Eggplant as well as the regular purple ones. And of course quite a bit of tomatoe plants. My parents plant quite a different variety of lettuce so I don't, I just pick it at their house. I stopped growing mint, it spreads so fast and all over, instead I plant these flowers called bee balm, a type of mint I guess, because it spreads and spreads and attracts hummingbees.
I don't plant things like potatoes and sweet potatoes, I do plant about three kinds of peppers though, they always come out great. I am kind of panicking though, it's mid-June and I haven't planted anything yet. !!!
I just had to have a new roof put on my house, which I paid for last week. It's really an absolute DRAG to have to spend so much money on something so unfilfulling (sp?) but a definite necessity, as the Mighty Diamonds song goes "I need a roof over my head" -- and mine was definitely rotting out in parts.
Music lovers, check out Luciano's tour dates!! I think I'm going to his Cape Cod June 27th show. He is very close to my home, in Hartford, Ct. but I don't really like how they run their shows, it's like "showtime" is 4:00 a.m."
So I'm now planning my garden to hopefully put in this weekend. In upstate NY we have really had an absolutely horrendously cold and nasty winter, usually the temperatures go on and off between freezing and semi-cold (like 30 degrees or so)... this year it really seemed to me like the coldest on a continual basis ever. And because my little Roamie Doodle Dandy (my dog) was so sick I had to be in NY all winter. I'm going to be "petless" for quite some time, although, there is a huge event here in my area all weekend at many places, to try and place homeless dogs in area homes. I am going to try really hard not to attend.
So I'm trying to figure out what to plant / what not to plant. I think in many years I have only had one cucumber crop that didn't taste bitter, so I'm scrapping them right off my list. I love eggplant & plant the little white ones, I think they might be called Japanese Eggplant as well as the regular purple ones. And of course quite a bit of tomatoe plants. My parents plant quite a different variety of lettuce so I don't, I just pick it at their house. I stopped growing mint, it spreads so fast and all over, instead I plant these flowers called bee balm, a type of mint I guess, because it spreads and spreads and attracts hummingbees.
I don't plant things like potatoes and sweet potatoes, I do plant about three kinds of peppers though, they always come out great. I am kind of panicking though, it's mid-June and I haven't planted anything yet. !!!
I just had to have a new roof put on my house, which I paid for last week. It's really an absolute DRAG to have to spend so much money on something so unfilfulling (sp?) but a definite necessity, as the Mighty Diamonds song goes "I need a roof over my head" -- and mine was definitely rotting out in parts.
Music lovers, check out Luciano's tour dates!! I think I'm going to his Cape Cod June 27th show. He is very close to my home, in Hartford, Ct. but I don't really like how they run their shows, it's like "showtime" is 4:00 a.m."