I have three gardens planted now. I started seeds thinking that if they were started the birds could not eat the seeds...I was wrong! I lost a row and a half of corn and about the same with the green beans...they just pulled all of the plants up and out of the ground. I bought some plants and after tilling again, got them planted too. I have all kinds of stuff growing now, not sure how much of a harvest I will get, but I have stuff planted.
I am going to assume that the soil is fertile in my gardens, I actually have 4 garden plots...only three are planted because when we get a lot of rain half of one floods. Weeds grow really well in my gardens, it is hard to keep up with weeding them. The tiller I got can go between the rows, but it has no reverse and next year I will need to remembr to leave more space between the fence and the planted rows...so I can use the tiller to weed!
I have harvested Mexican Plums and Dewberries. I made jelly with those, my first attempt at jelly making...so I ended up with more of a Dewberry syrup instead of jelly. After talking with a local lady, she said that it is always trial and error. My plum jelly turned out really good, jellied like it was suppose to. Dewberries and blackberries don't have any pectin in them so it takes much, much more...drives me crazy that none of my Dewberry jelly is really jellied.
The only other thing I have harvested is green tomatoes. My plants got so heavy it broke the metal tomato cage on one. I also saw a number of tomatoes with blossom end rot an deformed tomatoes from the way they laid on the ground. I have a bunch sitting on the counter now some starting to ripen. I dried my eggshells and ground them up to a powder and added some Epsom salt to an old huge Parmesan Cheese shaker and mixed it up really good and sprinkled the mix around all of my tomato plants. I hope the calcium and magnesium works wonders and fixes the problems. I need to apply fertilizer to the rest of my gardens, that is where my chickens come in handy.
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