Seeds

This post is long overdue... Life has taken over us! Both in the garden and in our homes.

With what seems like ages ago my sister and I were able to get out in the garden. After our rows got some well needed rest we went out to the garden and began giving our rows some TLC. Among the multiple things we discussed the main topics surrounded: tilling vs. not tilling, the real culprits in the Jardin, and where/what we were going to plant.

After we tilled, we spent some more time looking at the seed packets courtesy of Native Seed SEARCH!

Here is what we found: The amaranth could be planted in mounds/basins, but can also be raked in, so we broke down two of our small rows to make a patch.

The onion doesn't like beans, so we had to keep it away from the corn, since we want to stay with the three sisters (corn, squash, and bean). The tomato needed full sun as did the three sisters, and sunflowers, so we decided to use the tomato as a barrier. Our garden lays out as so:

Takin it OLD SCHOOL with Paint.... ahahaha pics to come soon :D

The onions were planted in one corner, tomatoes to separate it from where we will lay beans, a sunflower on each end of a row with corn, corn, and in the far corner Amaranth.

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Pests! Rascals!! *shakes fist* so last time we thought it was Possum (neighborhood stray), then we suspected the cat that looks like my sister's indoor cat (Cheto's twin), and finally realized after only half of our seeds sprouted it was B-I-R-D-S!
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As I mentioned since we had different things happen since we planted here are the updates we have:

• Row Therapy, we are continually weeding! As the weather shifts and rain comes there is natural vegetation that grows
• Pests
• Large Pests
• A fence! My sister and I invested in some plastic fencing that gives our little garden some nice dimension to it.
• We are continuing to use our coffee grounds to have the few ants we've seen retract.
• Small Pests
• We purchased a bird net that we put over the crops after we re-planted.
• A "natural enemy" owl. This is pretty neat, because it sits on the ground (or flat surface) and the head spins.
• Infant Crops
• Out of the seeds that survived the invasion (haha) we have continually been watching them making sure they were in the proper spaces. Some re-planted themselves in the trenches! haha, so we transferred them back into the mounds.
• Seedling!- Since about half of our corn was eaten, we went ahead and replanted the corn and some sunflowers to be able to have a full harvest
• Amaranth-about half of the amaranth was eaten up. However, since we have done some dialogue with other folk, we did find out that Amaranth is truly the miraculous crop. Not only can you eat this crop in its entirety, but it is sustaining and will grow wildly on its own. Since it will manifest itself so to speak, we decided to leave it as is, and focus on our other crops for the time being.
• Tomatoes- we have a few sprouts which are cute, but not many, they two were attached so we are waiting to plant and watching for more growth
• Onion, we also had a few sprouts but decided to put another set down. This way we can have a better quantity of crops
• Sign


• We painted a beautiful sign!! It's awesome. At this point we haven't found a place to place it in the garden and also finish.