Updates Galore, May Edition: Part One (May 12)

We have been steadily working towards our garden through maintenance, research and giving and taking love from it.

Over the past month we have gone in together and apart to give it the TLC it needed. From afternoon giggles and visitors to long hard days at work. I have been working on getting some slideshows up and running so we can document what is happening every time we go in, sorry for the wait, I had to breakdown and use a generator because the HTML was making me blind.. hehe  

May 12: Clean-up & Pest Control

Our first big day in the Jardin this month we were mainly doing some re-planting, clean-up of weeds and such as well as laying down our pest mixture. A storm came through and knocked over some of our corn, so we were picking up stalks and making mini mounds around them on top of the rows.

Through the photos you can see an update on what is happening to our crops from Amaranth, to Sunflowers, to Corn, to Tomato, to the Onion.  Beautiful aren't they, they have grown so fast its amazing. 

This day we really discussed what was happening at this time. One of the problems we faced were the birds eating our seeds and as devastating as that sounded it has given us the opportunity to see the corn what seems like three stages: the beginning, fertilization and continued growth. You can see that with the variations of tassels in the slideshow. 

The Amaranth is thriving on its own! We did notice that something is feeding off the amaranth and went through some heavy duty research, which I will get to in a bit. 

Onion is growing, since its a root crop (underground) its hard to tell what is really going on. at this point what we know is the bulb is getting its nutrients from the ground, so we water and must see what is going to happen.

Tomato: growing, looks good, we are excited because we have tried tomato before and weren't too successful. However this time around all looks well, we need to work on getting cages.

Sunflower: it's growing! AHHHHHh! I am especially excited because I think these are such beautiful flowers, not to mention the seeds are tasty! The heads are looking large and in charge. It's our tallest plant and pretty firm.

Until Next time! Please see Parts Two and Three of the Updates Galore, May Edition!

-Gritona