Ending One Garden, Beginning Another
This past year's garden didn't go as well as it could've, mostly because it got neglected in the frantic rush of the convention season, which began right as I needed to start our peppers and tomatoes indoors. From then on, gardening just sort of got squeezed into the cracks of the business -- which is reminiscent of how the garden tended to be on the farm, squeezed into the cracks of growing corn and soybeans that were our cash crops.
I did get everything planted that I wanted, but it was often done hastily, before it was too late. Because I was in and out throughout the spring and summer, I didn't water things as well they needed to be, and had very little time for weeding and pest control. So we got some food (especially sugar snap peas and snow peas early, and a decent amount of summer squash), but we lost the beans, the big tomatoes, and the peppers.
I'd planted a fall crop of snow peas, but right when I should've been harvesting them, I was neck deep in Grand Rapids Comic Con. There are pods on the plants, but after a couple of hard freezes, I don't think they're worth harvesting. We'll probably just leave them as ground cover over the winter, then turn them under to add nitrogen to the soil.
Today I ordered next year's seeds, in order to take advantage of a Cyber Monday sale. I'm hoping to have them in my hands shortly, so I'll have them ready for whatever happens in 2023. I'm hoping that we'll have a decent sales season -- and that I'll figure out how to balance conventions and gardening, as I figured out how to balance conventions and getting newsletters out this year.
I did get everything planted that I wanted, but it was often done hastily, before it was too late. Because I was in and out throughout the spring and summer, I didn't water things as well they needed to be, and had very little time for weeding and pest control. So we got some food (especially sugar snap peas and snow peas early, and a decent amount of summer squash), but we lost the beans, the big tomatoes, and the peppers.
I'd planted a fall crop of snow peas, but right when I should've been harvesting them, I was neck deep in Grand Rapids Comic Con. There are pods on the plants, but after a couple of hard freezes, I don't think they're worth harvesting. We'll probably just leave them as ground cover over the winter, then turn them under to add nitrogen to the soil.
Today I ordered next year's seeds, in order to take advantage of a Cyber Monday sale. I'm hoping to have them in my hands shortly, so I'll have them ready for whatever happens in 2023. I'm hoping that we'll have a decent sales season -- and that I'll figure out how to balance conventions and gardening, as I figured out how to balance conventions and getting newsletters out this year.