Thursday, June 2, 2016

squash planting in main bed June 2, 2016

in main bed had hilled up the middle and put down poly
planed 12 squash plant
4 Hubbard
4 Buttercup
4 Waltham Buttnernut

also planted a tomato, some marigold, a hibiscus, a lavatera under the catalpa at back of house

Planted the 6 1-gal pots of Everbearing Raspberries at far end of the garden beds past the rhubarb patch

The pots had 3 cans per pot- so split the plants and put 9 canes in each 8 ft bed
Dug out the grass, went down shovel depth and removed most of the clay
Added black soil, peat moss and some HG leaves into trench
Backfilled with more black soil

Thursday June 3 added water soluble fert to most of the beds at the back
mixed 20-20-20 with 10-52-10 to end up with 15-36-15 for some beds

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