Natural insect and disease control

Book on The organic gardener's handbook of

natural insect and disease control

Molybdenum deficiency
spray with seaweed extract


expect this in excessive heat

what is wrong with your plants

Helpful site to understand

art in the garden, Gardenmate to go into the soil

We have had less than 15 weeds this whole time.
The straw on the ground is the key.
Once the tomato is done I will break down those rotted bails to add to the mulch.
I have a humus to add to the soil.
The name of the product is Gardenmate. It is a humic matter from New Mexico.
It is said the soil will better absorb nutrients.
The product was a bit costly $50.
I think however that the bennefits to the garden will well be invested with this purchace and addition to the soil.
I can not get the container open so I need help with that.
The bucket should do both garden and the extension in the fall.
We have adopted the wonderful tree sculpture for a garden trellis for the green beans in the fall.

Melons are growing strong.
I think that the neglect of trimming them at the 6 ft mark is a hindered to fruit set.
The whole of the garden is very low on fruit set.
The nutrients may be off.
I did see a man spraying a tree with something next door.
I have some concern he may have killed my bees.
I do hope not.
Very few bees around.

The addition of the nitrogen has saved that last cabbage. Ya! one out of the many.
It did serve well the hens for greens though.
I do have fruit set on the squash that came on its own, I did not plant him.
Several fruits.
He had just been hosed off.

The humis and the diet. Earth with be hoed into the soil for the fall grop.
After that the earth with be given a straw blanket to conserve the moisture.

Wow I love this idea!

Over at the Gypsy's corner

Another "fart" egg and the secrete to no more nematodes

Chickens gave me another silly little fart egg, yes that is what they are called.
With this heat the egg production has slowed.
The Last of the tomato also was come with the heat of this desert summer.
The heat just cooks them on the vine.

in the soil the root veggies can suffer from the infectious little eaters who will ruin your toil...nematodes
Organically taking care of this is done with
Datomaceous Earth

Here is a link to better understand DE

Fall garden layout zone 8 or 9

Wow this was a real fun project!
I love to learn about the things I find most interesting.
Raising my own food is among the very best of my interests.

This year I am doing a garden extension. Actually bubbling the land to be used.
The left side is the existing site.

The far right will be the high nitrogen bed
Rhubarb
beets
boc choy

the low nitrogen in center with all the
onion and garlic

The salad beds near the gate

With table grapes on the arbor.

My fence will be straw bails until an affordable black wrote iron
:)
some day!
This is the extension, and new entrance to the Bee Bliss Garden.
The blue ladder is a trellis my FILove gave to me recently.
My husband will have to wield it back together.
It stands 6 foot tall,the width as indicated on grid.
Grid is on 1ft scale.

Welcome to my new extended garden.
This is the entry a 4 ft wide space to conserve the aesthetic of space.

Two foot wide paths will be raised and the Raised beds (lowered).
I learned about using gravity to conserve water so It is my intention to set "raised beds" sown into the space and keep the existing walkways in tact.
We have a grass here called Bermuda. SIX foot deep roots!
So the boxes sunken will be secure from Bermuda.

Looking out of the existing garden.
The gate and the straw bails removed.
Water tank to my right hand in place of those bails set to the corner of the house.
Under the gutters eave.

The gutter will now become a rain catch.
I am going to be harvesting rain water.
This is the tank.
We have to remove the badder within it (it held high fructose syrup) .

We will drill and set a hose bib.
Place the tank on cinder blocks to make use of the gravity.
The whole tank cost only as much as the black skid does for new ones that are smaller.
I am so thrilled!
This has been my vision all along.
The tank will be surounded by trellis and planted over with vine flowers or veggies.

All that work...
I needed a snack.
First crop! YUM!

This mess needed to be removed.
I had a small clump of Bermuda in the garden! This will not due!
So by using a fork up turning the soil I took it (roots and all) out.

Preparing for the new bed layout.
After great study the new bed layout will utilize the sun, space and the Nitrogyn needs of each food group.

Part of staking out this site is to de-bug it. So to speak.
I see a flaw in design.
I am not one to be crowded out.
although the plants here will be low to the earth...

taking this back 1 foot is a nicer fit and a more relaxed work space.

The design of the new bed arrangement has been started here.

To the right will be
potato
carrots
radish
turnip
parsnip (makes the best chicken soup)
celery to the tight right corner where the wheel barrow is.

In the far back will be the tomato
cucumber
Zucchini
bell peppers

In the new center row will be
At the far end center pole beans (they will shade the tomato)
corn with greens under them
foreground will have the peas on twigs set for climbing.

On making Earth.

While doing my kitchen duties...I realized out in my yard in the compost bin...I am making earth...

This earth will feed my family, nurture the earth that I own (yet I know I do not own it.
I am a steward of the earth I tend As I am a steward of the children I raise, a friend to the man I love and walk with through this life.

I am making earth.

Does anyone else stop and think of how profound what we as gardeners pull life up and out of... see it?
To me it is like an honor to toil in the earth. See the seed emerge and flourish under our educated eye. What effort to understand and gain the knowledge to do so.

Next time I do cabbage I will understand her need. As I have began to understand my own needs. How seldom I stop to tend to the earth of mine own being. How to make it thrive. It is the garden that I live in that I so seldom attend too.

What an honor it is to tend to life.