Easter comes late this year, so waiting for Good Friday was not an option. Planting on the summer garden began this weekend. The beauty of raised beds is that all the soil preparation necessary is raking off the mulch. The first thing in the ground was the cherry pepper plants. They were followed with seeds of yellow crookneck squash (3 hills) and ghost pepper and jalapeño plants. Next came 5 marglobe tomato plants and 4 basil plants with a row of straight 8 cucumbers all in the same bed.
The next bed got more jalapeño plants and some mammoth dill from seed. Early white bush squash (4 hills) was planted as the patty pan squash this year. There were 5 hills of zucchini followed by 2 more hills of yellow crookneck squash. A little tiny bed got a ghost pepper and a cayenne pepper plant. Speckled lima beans were planted from the seeds that came from a grocery store bag of dried beans. The stevia plant went into a bed with some mesclun that is already being picked. A bed was prepared for planting more squash, but I go tired and quit.
The Russian red kale was getting ready to bolt, so it was pulled off. A bushel of leaves yielded 4 freezer bags of cooked kale, that will grace summer soups, lasagna and quiches. 2 grocery bags of mixed greens barely thinned the mustard and turnips bed.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://davidsegrest.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/
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