Today I planted Amethyst String Beans at one of our community garden plots.
I planted with a young friend, Steve, my sharecropper?
No, I'm not charging him anything, I just rent beds there and then foist them on my friends!
The instructions called for 3 feet between rows but 8 seeds per foot!
This bed is only 4' wide, so we ran two rows, a foot in from either side.
We covered the seeds, then walked down the rows for better seed to soil contact, and watered it heavily.
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The hoops are not netted yet, so we are using these boxes for crop protection.
This is nother bed at the Village Green.
Made from a 2x3 pallet collar, it was planted last year with peas and later, volunteer tomatoes transplanted from other beds.
This time the volunteers came up in the bed and I cleared away the other "weeds" to give the tomatoes a better chance.
I will probably plant onion sets into this same bed, and also sow cilantro.
If I saw that volunteer in my garden, my first thought would be Solanum nigrum. (which excites me more than tomatoes, but I'd keep it either way. And I don't know if that even grows where you are.)
My experience with wonderberries makes me unexcited to meet Solanum nigrum, but I'm open to it.
The tomatoes that grew here last year were kinda a Matt's Wild Cherry type.
I say kinda, because those were my first volunteers, but I buy in some cherry tomatoes plants every year, and I hope for some genetic mixing.
We give tomatoes to the chickens, both our homegrown ones that spoiled, and lots of dumpster tomatoes.
The chicken compost is vector for spreading these tomatoes to multiple parcels.
Community plots are such a good way to get people growing who wouldn't otherwise have space. The volunteer tomatoes spreading through chicken compost is a nice touch — nature doing the work for you.
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My garden coordinator asked me to clean up plot 8.
This surprised me because I don't think it's one of mine, but she thinks it is...
So I clean out the weeds, and transplanted the trees and bushes.
There are some big strawberry plants in one of the beds and I will probably transplant them to another bed that already has strawberry plants.
Might plant both beds with corn, even though Its kinda late.
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