A short summary of what we got done today:
•D. finished the last bed in the side yard. Hooray! He also got the bacteria into the soybean bed (we didn't have it handy at planting time). All the peas got a little trellis help too. And watering and fertilizing too. Probably a hundred other things while I wasn't looking.
•I made 5 "watermelon circles." It's an experiment. I dug the holes amongst the foot-tall trees in the orchard, amended with compost, and planted 5 seeds (to be thinned to 3 plants) in each circle. Three different varieties of watermelons. Each circle is about 2.5' diameter. The land around it is the former lawn under several inches of composting chipped wood. There is not much grass left, and the wood chips are fairly composted. I have no idea if this will work, but it was fun to think of a way to use this temporarily open space.
•I ordered 2 different varieties of pomegranates (to replace the lime and pomegranate that got killed in the hoop house oopsie), 6 blueberry bushes (3 different varieties), and a blackberry to replace one of the lost ones.
•I also ordered a few more seeds - 2 kinds of amaranth, oats, long Japanese eggplant, and cobra melons. The amaranth I'm imagining growing in circles in the orchard area as well. It grows quite tall - 6 feet or more and is quite stunning.
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