Earlier Summer Vegetables
After a long and tiring day under the unrelenting sun, the summer vegetables were planted yesterday. There is still a little space to accommodate something else, perhaps a cucumber plant.
From the left:
- Tomatoes (iko, momotaro & tsugi momotaro)
- Aubergines, Peppers
- Sweet Potatoes
- Cucumbers
- Red Onions
- Garlic
- Potatoes
- White Onions
Although I didn’t cadge any cowpats, I did cadge some greens for the compost heap. After being offered a few barrow loads of compost from my neighbour’s compost mountain, the offer of a similar sized stack of shungiku (chrysanthemum) came.
I had made a short deviation from my no chemical strategy and treated my own heap with some pellets to deal with only* beetle larvae and woodlice.
It seems quite timely; it will make an excellent addition. I shall be spending the next week clipping away with the secateurs.
* I can only hope so.
Please give it mulch, mulch, mulch.
Comment by DJEB — April 27, 2007 @ 2:55 pm
Since Alan at Dun Hagan mentioned mulch, I have been on the lookout for the thrifty solution. It has only just twigged, for it is an abundant by-product from what the city is famous for, rice.
The next job is to cadge some chaff, or more properly, ???? (momigara).
Comment by Adekun — April 28, 2007 @ 1:31 am