[Garden] Canada Day

[Tom Kelly]

Hey I was just at the garden this morning and it looks wonderful. has anyone else noticed that there is tomatoes growing all over in unexpected places? I think this is awesome because it likely means that these plants have been somewhat naturalized to the garden and should do well there.

Jason you mentioned gooseberries and I checked them today, not noticing the reddish ones which may be nearly ripe but all the ones I examined were still green and firm but getting to a mature size. I don't know of many birds that eat these since they are naturally protected with spikes so a little more waiting should still bring in some kind of results. A ripe gooseberry will be all reddish purple and much softer than a green one. Personally I think there is no better fruit leather than apple-gooseberry dried to a soft and pliable texture.

Oh and I did a little weeding around okra, basil and tomatoes. Under the black ground cover around the okra was bindweed like crazy everywhere that there was bare ground there was a mixture of bindweed and a kind of sedum. I pulled the bindweed since it kills vegetables and left the sedum (glossy leaves and reddish stem) to act like a ground coverin place of the bindweed that had been providing such a service. Since the bindweed was much more thick under the black cover where sedum was not growing and less thick where there was sedum, I'm hoping that the more benin sedum will help us keep the killer bindweed at bay.

The fence looks great so far, I'm sure that this will boost our yields from many crops this year and in years to come.

keep on gardening

TK

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> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 10:25:47 -0400
> From: jrochon at uwaterloo.ca
> To: garden at lists.wpirg.org
> Subject: [Garden] Canada Day
> 
> Gardeners,
>                   If you showed up yesterday you were likely chased by 
> security. I managed to talk my way past  them, but that was early in the 
> day.
> 
>              I planted more beans and corn in the fallow land. The 
> Earlyvee corn should come up in 55 days, but I am not holding my breath. 
> Does anyone have fishing line?I'd like to string some up to deter deer. 
> I also sprinkled some radish seed in the unplanted section. If we let 
> that go to seed the radishes will compete with the weeds, and soften the 
> clay soil. On the other hand, we could just eat them.
> 
>                The main section looks great and productive. The health 
> benefits of our organic approach are evident in the enormous mice I see 
> running about the North end of the garden. The radishes are ready, and 
> the beets will want thinning. I have radish seed if anyone want to 
> re-sow radish. Fianlly, does anyone know what a ripe gooseberry looks 
> like? Ours are starting to turn reddish, and I'd like someone to eat 
> them before the geese(?) gobble them up.
> 
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