The excessive rain has destroyed the plan. We did not have the ability to craft the different raised beds we wanted. We are just trying to get the plants into the ground so they do not get root bound and die on the porch. When the rain let up for several days this week allowing the soil to dry enough to plan, so we got up early Sunday morning to go out to the Garden and plant the herbs.
We left the south side of the garden for herbs when planting last week. We checked the weather when we got up at 6 am and it said the rain was going in but not until 10 AM, so we loaded up the plants and went over getting to the garden around 6:45 AM.
We had to remove the weeds from the garden space as we did not weed this section previously. We used the soil twister to pull out the larger weeds and loosen them so they could be easily raked out. It was not that time consuming.
Since I want to be able to lift out some of herbs from the garden at the end of the season, I decided to bury plastic containers and place the plants inside. They can grow in the container, yet still be removed at the end of the year, reducing the root shock which killed the herbs I removed from the garden last year.
I used plastic cat litter containers. They are thin flexible plastic, easily cut with a box cutter. We made them deep for all but the thyme plants which we cut the container slight more shallow for. We cut holes in the bottom for drainage.
I then dug out the dirt in various holes slightly larger but not deeper than the containers.
Placing the container in the ground I packed dirt around it, then filled it part way and added the plants. We added water before and after plating the plants.
The spaces we planted back in May had a fair amount of weeds, that were in some cases taller than the plants. It had been two weeks since we had been there, so this was to be expected.
The excessive rain was not loved by all the plants and resulted in one plant death. These are the cucumber plants. I have yet to plant any bean seeds, but I will take care of that this week.
The peppers are doing okay, but the hot peppers that had a few peppers forming have lost those peppers, probably again a product of the extra rain.
We left the south side of the garden for herbs when planting last week. We checked the weather when we got up at 6 am and it said the rain was going in but not until 10 AM, so we loaded up the plants and went over getting to the garden around 6:45 AM.
We had to remove the weeds from the garden space as we did not weed this section previously. We used the soil twister to pull out the larger weeds and loosen them so they could be easily raked out. It was not that time consuming.
Since I want to be able to lift out some of herbs from the garden at the end of the season, I decided to bury plastic containers and place the plants inside. They can grow in the container, yet still be removed at the end of the year, reducing the root shock which killed the herbs I removed from the garden last year.
I used plastic cat litter containers. They are thin flexible plastic, easily cut with a box cutter. We made them deep for all but the thyme plants which we cut the container slight more shallow for. We cut holes in the bottom for drainage.
I then dug out the dirt in various holes slightly larger but not deeper than the containers.
Placing the container in the ground I packed dirt around it, then filled it part way and added the plants. We added water before and after plating the plants.
The spaces we planted back in May had a fair amount of weeds, that were in some cases taller than the plants. It had been two weeks since we had been there, so this was to be expected.
The excessive rain was not loved by all the plants and resulted in one plant death. These are the cucumber plants. I have yet to plant any bean seeds, but I will take care of that this week.
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| Hot pepper with damaged fruit |
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