Another successful day in the garden

in garden •  10 months ago 

Garden report for May 27, 2023. This is my first year here in Northwestern BC, Canada, and I'm ripping up lawn as fast as I can! Then the seeds go down... and the plants come up. I'm trying to have the digging complete by the end of the month.

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As you can tell by the darker soil, today I expanded the top section down by a couple feet. (For yesterday's post go here.) It seems like I could get the rest of it done in 4 more days if weather and health permit.

This is what it will look like then:

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Also today, I awoke to find some HUGE dog footprints all through the garden!

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Apparently, someone from the neighborhood is allowing their large dog to wander the streets at night. He only managed to trample a few of my plants, but as they grow, a dog running through there could do a lot more damage. I really need to build a gate or something.

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But that lettuce is doing really well, so I thinned it out, leaving only the strongest plants, spaced evenly along the row.

All the good leaves got washed up and we had a delicious fresh salad.

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I put down a patch of roma tomato seeds today, so I've started 2 varieties of the 5 I plan to grow. 3 more will be started within the next week.

I went to the local farmers market today, and picked up some flower bulbs to plant around the property. I got dahlias, irises, and lilies. Hopefully they help attract honeybees to the yard, for fertilizing the garden plants.

The dog damage was disappointing, but I expanded the garden area, got some flowers for the yard, planted tomato seeds, and harvested lettuce... so it was a good day in the garden!

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Congratulations! You are now reaping the fruits of your hardwork. It must have been a very joyful experience harvesting your own produce and eating them with your family.♥️👏

  ·  10 months ago  ·  

Ahhh I'm drooling seeing those fresh lettuce leaves. LOL

That foot prints are huge, you're right you must have to build a gate or fence or else that dog will love to play when your plants are growing. If there were chickens around your place that would be a bigger head ache than the dogs like what my father's garden before.


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The dog footprint make me to remember what is happening here. Most of the farmers are afraid of herdmen because many of them go into people's farm and eat up their hard labor crops and to some that are caught in the act the herdmen kill some and wound up many.

That's why man people have left farming

It is developing nicely!! 👍🌱

  ·  10 months ago  ·  

Very nice! Yeah I learned how important a fence is when first groundhogs reduced my veggie patch to leafless stalks, and then the deer hopped over the fence I'd put in to keep out the groundhogs. Even so, that patch produced some food for me. It's amazing!

  ·  10 months ago  ·  

That was a really nice trip to the market today. We got a birdhouse and some flowers planted. That was a very tasty salad but needed real tomato.


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