Water spicket is now at proper height

Leave your garden with a sweet lovin husband who wants to give you the moon.

See what he did for me.

Now with the knee issues and the spinal stinosis I have a hard time bending down every day to the spicket. Additionally the water source was on the other side of the house and I have been dragging a hose.

 

He set up a bib on the side for the south extension and two one this side one for the soaked and another for the spray.

 

 My garden was designed along side the water main for the house.

Yes this was the dumbest way the builder set our main line but we made lemon aid out of that rotten fruit. Using the location to our advantage my husband tapped directly into the line and set up water to the garden. Now I no longer have that extra effort to extend and the ease that this will afford me will really make a daily difference. It will really save me a lot of time every morning too.

 

Look no bending and it is a perfectly easy reach with nothing blocking the access.

Oh this is just wonderful~

First fruits of 2009 fall garden

I came home from a trip to Florida yesterday to find a reward for all my hard work.

radish,cherry tomato, pan squash and basil

YUM!

Moon Phase for planting October/November 2009

New Moon To Full Moon:  10/18/09-11/2/09	Sow, Transplant, bud and graft.
Full Moon To New Moon: 11/2/09-	11/16-09	Plow, Cultivate, weed and reap.
New Moon To First Quarter:10/18-10/25	Good for Planting above-ground crops with outside seeds, flowering annuals.
First Quarter To Full Moon:10/25-11/5	Good for planting above ground crops with inside seeds.
Full Moon To Last Quarter:11/5-11-9	Good for planting root crops, bulbs, biennials, and perennials.
Last Quarter To New Moon:11/9-11/16	Do Not Plant

Planting by moon phase...New Moon To First Quarter: Good for Planting above-ground crops with outside seeds, flowering annuals.

Good Sunday to you

follow your vision

With the coffee grounds to compost

the ground egg shell, oatmeal and bread heals to chicken set off to task am I.

WRONG...I thought it was time

to plant the bulbs, perennials and biannual and those plants that seed above ground this is correct.
boy did I get mixed up!
Oh well! :)
They are now in!
Onion and per/biannual well say a prayer and hope for the best.
opps!

The new plot dug out has been tri trenched...

Companion planting...

Chives for the peas...

This is the newest bed on the west side of the shed in the shade of the gazebo

 Sage and chive in the squares around the lettuces

 

This is the east facing bed

The sage in the squares...

The chive between the bok choy and the lettuce/onion rows

keep aphids away.

the pots were soaked in the dogs pool

the absorption is a better way to moisten the soil.

Lemon balm (tomato on the otherside of the rain barrel love it)

on one side planter.

The trailing rosemary to the left is favored by the brocolli in the raised bed

pollinators are drawn by it.

Keeping records

The final (for today ha!) Master plan for 2009 fall

 

A mirroring bed has been added to the otherside of the shed with trellis for both shed walls.

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Seets to sprouts!

click image to enlarge them

A garden tour gave me great hope yesterday the plants were still alive
The celery made it through transplant and the heat of the day.

This morning the beets gave ruby hope to crops in the harvest of all this hard labor...
Planted 7 days...after soaking the seeds in water overnight

Yesterday the turnips were also part of the cure.
Indeed life goes on.
Planted 7 days before germination.

Under umbrellas the radish wished me good day yesterday and show growth in even this one day, planted 7 days ago

Joyfully the pan squash have survived under the sheet my MILove gave us.
I used it to give the shade that kept life in the 107* temperatures.

The radish delineate the parsnip row, but it will be weeks perhaps before the parsnips begin their assent to the heavens and the decent to the depths of long healthy root.

It is a joy and a encouragement to see life come to
BEE BLISS to me.
It has been a long way way too long hot summer.
This summer began with a goal for a garden extension.
The goal in progress is come to success!
I have kept my vision.

Moon phases Sept 25, to Oct 1, 2009

September 25th ....We have until October 1 st
(two days before a full moon)

to get planted everything that fruits above ground
seed in pod
and flowering annuals.

Second quarter planting, or the time from the half-full to the full moon.
Plant annuals that have above-ground yields which are
vining and produce seed inside the fruit.


New Moon To Full Moon: Sow, Transplant, bud and graft.

Full Moon Oct 3rd


I'll need to get the rest of the flowers and the celery in tonight