WAKEMAN'S WHITE BIRCH NURSERY
  • Home
  • Wildflower meadows as an option to toxic lawns
  • How To Grow Birches
  • How to Save The Monarch Butterfly
  • FALL HORTICULTURE
  • Planting
    • Planting
    • Feeding
    • Watering
  • Products
    • Shrubs >
      • Trees
    • Bulk Mulch >
      • Firewood
    • Topsoil
    • Perennials
  • Veggie blog
  • fall 2018
  • Frequently Asked
    • About
  • Surfing
  • Gallery
  • Summer Horticulture
  • spring horticulture

GROWING VEGGIES.

                START READING THE OLDEST BLOG IF YOU ARE NEW AT GARDENING, LOTS OF IMPORTANT INFO STARTING THERE.

Finally started planting

6/16/2019

 
I’ll admit it. This year I just got disinterested in my garden. I’ve walked past it and avoided eye contact, my relationship with that plot of land fractured by laziness. It all started last fall when I started ignoring it and let it go to weeds- just couldn’t help it! It’s a lot of work!

This spring with the never ending shitty weather that saw one last wood burning stove event in my home on June 3rd, I just preferred to go inside. I wasn’t even sure if I was going to plant a garden ever, at all, this year.

Yet Im surrounded at work with these plants, and the thought of not planting a garden this year would be like a high crime and misdemeanor punishable by some sort of impeachment in my own mind (no impeachment of anyone unfortunately at the moment), so yesterday I reluctantly grabbed my stuff and started working.

I vowed to keep the plant selection fun. I’m planting fun stuff to eat, not like zucchini and eggplants that I usually give away and never really know how to cook or store anyway.
Yesterday, we planted corn, radishes, heirloom tomatoes, romaine lettuce, onions, and just after we finished, it rained pretty hard which I interpreted as a sign from Mother Nature that reaffirmed her approval of the entire endeavor- that I wasn’t alone in this work.

To those of you who scoff at my interpretations, I can only say this:

Holding a shovel for long periods of time then crawling around in the dirt sweating and constantly pulling one’s pants up as the dirt, sweat, and effort conspire against a soul, a certain amount of insanity ensues, with the mind wandering off into unchartered territory.

​Im not responsible!
Picture
First step- spray roundup on the entire garden area. Let the weeds dry before getting in there to work. Once it’s dry it’s ok. Sure, I use roundup A LOT. Almost daily. The negative news you have heard about the jury awards is hyped up and scoffed at by professionals. Nobody can convince people in my business that a jury of twelve non-medical professionals/non-chemists can determine when and where an 80 year old man got his cancer. Nobody can determine that. Your car exhaust emits dozens of cancer causing chemicals. Don’t worry about using roundup. Just follow the directions!
Picture
Step two- plant tomato plants six feet apart (lesson learned from last year when they were way way way too close).
Picture
Step three plant a row of radish and onions.
Picture
Corn at the end and romaine lettuce inbetween the tomato plants. They are a short crop and can coexist between the tall tomatoes. In a month all the lettuce will be eaten and something else will be in its place.
The entire sweaty time we were planting, there was a cat bird gossiping on the top of a mt. Laurel bush at the top of it’s voice for all to hear. It’s song was voiciferous and lengthy and non-stop. Whatever had happened in this lonely bird’s life must have been upsetting because of the loud and varied inflections in it’s song was striking.
I have noticed that this week the bird songs are at peak intensity and volume, starting at 4-4:15 am and going on until after sundown which is late this time of year.

Its all related I think; gardening and nature. Yeah, you gotta trudge up to the garden to toil for your own betterment, but whilst toiling one is surrounded not by news/current events/technology/man made distractions, but by Mother Nature in all her glory. Birds, sun rays intensifying the inherent beauty of plants, the soft feel of warm soil in one’s fingers not to mention the smells of life in the summertime air are hard not to notice.
Picture
The sweetest smelling honeysuckle in the world
Picture
More honeysuckle flowers on the horizon
Picture
A rose insists that I take its picture on the way to plant veggies today. I was just stalling
Picture
Roses have more flowers coming also. They’ll flower all summer for kitchen table fragrance whilst I chomp on food from the garden.
Michael link
12/14/2021 10:10:28 am

Great Article! Thank you for sharing this is very informative post, and looking forward to the latest one.


Comments are closed.

    Archives

    April 2020
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    December 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Hours:

After Christmas until early March we are at the nursery infrequently. You can leave a message on the phone but it might be some time before we get back to you.

Note- Inclement weather changes our hours. If in doubt, call us. Inclement weather includes extreme heat and cold, extreme snow and rain.

Winter- call and leave a message. We go in every now and then, we will call you back.




Telephone

(203) 261-3926
  • Home
  • Wildflower meadows as an option to toxic lawns
  • How To Grow Birches
  • How to Save The Monarch Butterfly
  • FALL HORTICULTURE
  • Planting
    • Planting
    • Feeding
    • Watering
  • Products
    • Shrubs >
      • Trees
    • Bulk Mulch >
      • Firewood
    • Topsoil
    • Perennials
  • Veggie blog
  • fall 2018
  • Frequently Asked
    • About
  • Surfing
  • Gallery
  • Summer Horticulture
  • spring horticulture