Today I planted most of Raised Bed #4. I have dedicated half of this bed to Sweet corn. Whilst I had hoped I would have room for 4 rows, I only managed to squeeze in 3 rows of 10. I spaced the individual seeds roughty four to six inches apart, with ten inches between each [...] Read more »

Now that I have completed extending Bed #3, I have space for my remaining asparagus crowns. My planting today consisted of two rows of 5 of Jersey Supreme Hybrid Asparagus – Giant Grade, and behind them one row of 5 of my remaining Purple Passion Asparagus crowns. Once I had them planted I gave the [...] Read more »

I have spent a lot of time the last few days working on a new raised bed (Bed #3) for my Asparagus.   I originally planned to plant these along the fence line, but given the long life span of Asparagus (10 years or even more) I decided against it.  With any luck the Asparagus will last [...] Read more »

Today I planted half of bed #2. I sowed 2 rows of Sweet Peas, 5 in each row, into the back left quarter of the bed. The plan eventually is to provide them some kind of trellis work for support, but I have a little while before I need to worry about that. In front [...] Read more »

Today was my first planting! A whole lot of seeds (as well as a selection of Tomato Seedlings) are ready to go in the ground I had been unsure which Tomato Variety to go with, so I took advantage of Burpee’s Tomato Hall of Fame.  This package consists of a selection of different tomato cultivars as listed below (excluding [...] Read more »

Now that raised beds #1 and #2 are ready to be planted, I have decided to apply a little fertilizer in the meantime. A quick trip to Home Depot and I have 2 pounds of ‘Vigoro Timed-Release All Purpose Plant Food 19-6-12′.  Honestly, I didn’t do much research on this.  I have applied it as per [...] Read more »