Gardening Plans For the Summer

Potatoes and a few onion's
For the deer,corn
For the doves milo and sunflowers

 

i think I will raise fish this year,that’s how wet it is here

 

Planted a few other things
Peach tree,apple,pear,hazelnut, blueberries, fig
Checked my pecan tree, Its not looking to good
May have to plant more pecan trees?

 

For real,Sinking a tractor is very certain!

 

Onions, potatoes, carrots, lettuce in the ground, along with spaghetti squash. Blueberry bushes and raspberry canes starting to take off (only the second season for these.)

Tomatos on the agenda for tomorrow...eta: tomatos in, along with some sweet bell peppers.

Need to replace a post on the grape arbor...blasted termites

 

We added 3 more fruit trees this year to make a total of 15 trees , 12 grape vines , Raspberry , strawberry , so far are started. Tomatoes of 3 types .
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I noticed (2 years ago), that one of my 4x8 grow boxes had some pretty heavy wood rot, on the end boards.....and I can't imagine that it's improved, over the last 2 seasons!

So my plan is to move the well seasoned dirt from that box, and transfer it to two 100-gallon grow bags I got, from Amazon, last year. Should take ~13 cubic feet per bag, and there's 32 cubic feet in that box, so that leaves me ~6 cubic feet (~50 gallons) of dirt. Those two bags will have tomatoes (etc.) in one, and sweet potatoes in the other (which should work better than the bag I grew sweet potatoes in, last year, as they're deeper).

The 100 gallon grow bag that housed my sweet potatoes, last season, will be emptied, to fill the newly modified box, which will now be 2x8 in size, and turned 90 degrees from its current position. I dumped a bunch of mulched leaves in that bag, last fall, and shoveled soil on top of it, so they've had all winter to start decomposing. I can dump some freshly chopped material into the box, so I have nitrogen provided, to go along with the chopped dead leaves carbon, and enrich the dirt in that box. I'll be growing beans in that box, this year, too (more nitrogen!).

The other 4x8 box, will have cukes, carrots, sweet peppers, potatoes (purple ones! ) and various herbs, this year. Oh, and a shitload of marigolds, too!

Finally, with some newly mixed soil (and what's left, after filling the 2x8 box, I'll move the old 100 gallon grow bag that I just emptied (so much easier to move, empty! LOL), and put some hot peppers in there, this year. Picked up some seedlings, a couple weeks ago, that are growing tall and strong indoors right now....
...Thai Dragon peppers, and GHOST peppers!!

Finally, I picked up a pair of blueberry plants, this past weekend, and will at least be putting those into pots, this year (hopefully, into their permanent home, aboveground boxes, once we cool off, after summer. That way, they can spend the Texas winter establishing themselves there.

 

Going to do a combo of no dig and tire gardening. The Zukes will go into tires this year....