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I put the spuds in on Good Friday and have continued to get more planted thru May 10. This year like last, my garden is 20ft x 300ft. I plant all my rows the 20ft way. Darn near every row crop is spaced 36" on center. This way I get my tiller up and down in between each row for weed control. Vines get more as do tomatoes.
We have been eating spinich for the last 4 weeks. I've been picking 3 plastic grocery sacks every 3rd day. Beets will be ready in a week. Candy makes pickeled beets for us. We'll have zucs about a week from now as well. We'll start digging Yukon Gold spuds on July 4th. Corn and lots of other goodies will come along in mid July and the rest of the summer. We'll dig the last 3 rows of white baker spuds late Oct. Can and freeze a bunch. Have 2 big chest freezers + an unright that gets filled up with either veggies or deer.
The weeds tried to get ahead of me this last week. Went to Denver last Thur and came home with Candy on Fri eve. Then the rain, 2.50" Fri eve thru Monday morn. My corn looked like a new hybrid - horizontal corn! But is back standing today after a 50+ mph wind late Fri with the rain. Candy and I just got in from hand weeding. The dirt is still to wet to run a tiller. That will be Thur if no more rain before then. Need to heal up my first 1/2 of corn. It's knee high now and time to get the job done.
Lots of sweat and labor of love. We give away all we don't use. My garden feeds Candy and I + Craig's family + Mugsy's family + a couple of families get regular care packages. Friends tell me to take it down and sell it at the farmer's mkt. No thanks.
The first 3 rows at the house end is gladiolas spaced 4" oc, with the rows 12" apart. That makes cut flowers for the house for the month of Aug. About 150 bulbs. They are a pain to weed !
Love the dirt.
cliff
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