Welcome Back to Ripple Brook!
At the end of May, we finally planted a bit of a small garden. Zach rototilled some of the mushroom mulch we purchased into the garden area a couple of weeks back. Rachel followed-up with one last tilling before the planting.
We planted:
- red peppers
- tomatoes
- cherry tomatoes
- cucumber seeds
- green bean seeds
- beets (because we had some seeds)
- zucchini seeds
- pumpkin seeds.
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| Fiona and Adel pose at the edge of the garden and then quickly came into the shade to cool off on this very HOT sunny day |
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| Fiona was such a big help planting the garden this year! |
Here is what our garden looks like today at just over a week later! Germination and some nice growth has occurred for all the varieties we planted!
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| Week #1 |
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| Fiona is here gesturing at the beans near her feet. Down the back side of the bean row you can see our cucumbers coming up nicely. Behind Fiona you are sort of able to see the zucchini and then pumpkin row emerging also. |
We planted our extra 25 Chambourcin plants, from our Chambourcin mini-expansion last week, in between row 1 and row 2 of our garden for safe keeping.(To the far right) If we are to have any loss in our large Chambourcin patch we will easily be able to locate its replacement next spring.
Stay tuned-in to see how well (or not so well) we maintain our garden, as well as see what kind of yield we receive.
