11:30 on Sunday morning and I already have two projects checked off of my list! I wasn't so sure about going outside today but I decided to bite the bullet and bundle up. On my list for today was filling up my raised raspberry bed and setting up a trellis for my peas. Easy enough. Filling the bed was just a matter of slashing some bags, dumping and mixing. I had my husband help me with the pea trellis. That poor guy is always getting dragged into garden projects, but he doesn't seem to mind....that much! We had panels covered in chicken wire left over from a deconstructed iguana cage (Rip Izzy) so we lashed them together at the top with twine and secured it into the ground by weaving bamboo canes through the wire and pushing them into the ground. We figure if it stands through the gale winds we are having today it should be good! I plan on planting the peas sometime this week.
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Peas will go in later this week. The rest of the bed
will be filled with lettuce. |
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These two peas mature at different dates and grow to
different heights. One is a three footer and the other
is a 5 footer. The trellis is six foot. |
As for the raspberry bed, I filled it with a mix of Miracle Gro Organic Choice garden soil, peat moss, and some rotted humus/manure. After I get the plants in I will mulch with rotted guinea pig shavings. Raspberries like things to be a tad on the acidic side of life. I also need to construct a T-Bar trellis to hold the lil buggers in line so they don't try to reach out and snag me as I walk by. I picked three cultivars; Latham which is a summer producer, and Heritage and Fall Gold which are fall bearing. I chose the Latham for fresh eating and the Heritage and Fall Gold for late season fresh eating, freezing and canning.
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| Before |
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| After |
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| Berry Canes |
Now for the rest of my day; clean the house, do a couple loads of laundry, make a meatloaf and some homemade bread...... and start some lettuce and flower seeds!
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