potato harvest

Its that time of year, time to dig up the potatos. Here are some pictures from our recent harvest.

before

digging
john eyes his produce

the end result

our gardens are in

John worked on digging up the sod in garden 3 while I planted garden 2 on Tuesday.


Diggin'
Garden #2 all set out to plant
Garden 1 is still looking good!
Planting #2
look at my tomato! (this morning I went out to find blooms on it!!)
Planting garden #3 on Wednesday
Finished garden #2 on Wednesday


Finished garden #3 on Wednesday.
All we have left are some Roma tomato plants which are not big enough to go into the ground yet. Where are we going to put them you might ask? I haven't got a clue yet :)

companion gardening

Today I want to share the new philosophy we are doing this year for our garden. Its called companion gardening. The idea behind it is that plants have different properties that help or hurt each other. They make good ‘companions’ for growing. For example marigolds: The workhorse of pest deterrents; keeps soil free of nematodes; discourages many insects.

So we are inter-mixing our plants in the garden and applying this. Not only do I like how it looks but I think it will be better all the way around for the plants as they can ‘help’ each other. As we experiment with this plan this year I hope to learn more and figure out how to plan and inter-mix my veggies to make it look even better next year!

Here are some websites you can check out for more information:

http://www.seedsofchange.com/enewsletter/issue_55/companion_planting.aspx

http://www.ghorganics.com/page2.html