In the Deep South , summertime is almost a gap between two gardening time of year : spring and fall . These are the seasons in which it ’s pleasant to garden in the South .
Summer is not pleasant , though it is an excuse for drinking beer and eat watermelon vine while spraying little children with the hose .
If you play your menu right during the give garden season , you ’re now harvest spicy peppers and okra and the corpse of the tomatoes , along with wintertime squash , watermelon and corn … but it ’s not really the time to plant newfangled thing , unless you want to throw away in some okra , a few more sweet potatoes , or perhaps a seam of Southern pea plant .
This dawn I pay off up early and used a string trimmer to rap down some of the weeds around the boundary of the garden and the paths , then broke out the tiller and till under two patches of weedy garden which had already been glean ; one being our spring potato bed , the other , my daughter ’s speckle of wheat .
Instead of planting them with nutrient , we ’re going to put in two patches of sunn hemp as a cover crop for the summer . This will bestow N and give us plenty of material for mulch and compost .
We did this last year on a speckle of terrible sand and it did great .
I was tempt to engraft another circle of pumpkins to see how they ’d do , but decided I ’d rather crush out all the smoke and make compost rather with the outer space .
We can plant pumpkins out where the pigs cleared in the food forest and see how they do . Apparently , they will endure at this clip of class , despite the crazy heat and bugs . We ’ve not ever constitute them this late so it will be an experiment . We ’re about to harvest pumpkin vine from the I planted in March and April – perhaps we ’ll get two generations in one year . This will be good for theC. moschatalandrace project .
We also plan to put in some more watermelons to see how they do .
Yesterday we glean a 20 lb watermelon vine from Ezekiel ’s landrace project .
When we trim it open , we were surprise by the color .
It was sweet and pleasant , but not super rich in flavor . Very enjoyable , however , especially on a hot sidereal day .
There are some yellow and orangish genetics in Ezekiel ’s landrace undertaking .
Good Gardener Leo , from South Georgia , had some of Ezekiel ’s seed and sent in these impression two days ago :
He writes :
“ Here are some pics of our first watermelon from Ezekiel ’s landrace seeds . It turned out the sensationalistic assortment . It taste like a yellow melon . A few more coming up . I added some other seeds of I do n’t get it on what to the landrace . We are looking forward to see what they see like ! ”
The mix of seed lines in this landrace is really ridiculous . It ’s blend to be interesting to see which traits become prevalent in a few more seasons .
in the end , we terminate our bookshelves and eventually got all of our books out of boxes a few day ago .
Feels good . It ’s nice to have a cool place to read while the heat zoom outside .
Knocking down the weeds this morning was quite satisfying , though . It was n’t super hot because the sky was overcast , so I set out more done on the garden than we ’ve managed in a while .
One measure at a time . The weeds wo n’t win . Just when you call back you ’ve wholly lose the fight forever , fall and wintertime come and keep your Roger Bacon . Also , if we can suppress the grass and get lots of biomass from a few sunn hemp patches , we ’ll be in cracking shape for our fall gardens .
For now I need leave my office and lead inside to readStuart Littlewith my girl . In the new library .
Ca n’t beat that .
