Keeping my promise...

[rimturse]

...and posting garden pics progress. Well, it's not *really* the garden, but it's the veggie garden on the field that will eventually/hopefully become a bit of a park wilderness.



The vegetable patch:


The part I've dug so far:


The field:




And more photos of the dog. Just because I'm a dotty dog owner. I'd be absolutely intolerable if I had kids. :p

Comments

[darkspires.livejournal.com]

Beautiful Puppy. She looks like she is smiling.

Suggest you might want to rototile a couple of bags of peat moss into the veggie patch if that is the one you are going to use for this season. It will be better for the veggies and much easier to dig around.

[frigg.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping to use all patches this season and I'm trying to do crop rotation to keep the soil nourished. :)

I didn't know about the peat moss! But I looked it up and I can see it's quite used for vegetable gardens, I always thought it was for sour beds only. Shows how much I know. *lol*

Lia is probably dog-smiling. She had a hoot of an afternoon, so she was pretty tired and watching the gulls on the neighbour's field when the photo was taken.

[cathemery.livejournal.com]

Good dog!

The field looks a bit like a post-flood disaster. It needs some parky-wilderness TLC.

[frigg.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the field looks awful. It's difficult to imagine it'll ever look remotely nice. :p

[darkspires.livejournal.com]

You might want to include a couple of bags of peat moss every year in your veggie patch. It increases yield and reduces watering among other things. You look like you have some nice black dirt there, but the additions will help keep it aerated. Also plan to water with fertilizer twice a week. I would go for 20 8 20 if you can get it. Look for the little numbers on the label, or ask. Please also do not buy the Danish equivalent of Miracle Grow. The miracle is if anything does actually grow and it is hellishly expensive. What I would use would be Plant Pro if you can get it.

I think you might also want to save some tins or jam jars and leave them around and about the veggie patch with a nice top up of very cheap beer inside. This will attract and drown slugs.

For a general all round insecticide, boil up rhubarb leaves on an outside barbecue. The resulting green liquid can then be used to spritz any greenfly, etc. It is very poisonous so don't breath in the fumes.

BTW, broom goes very well with lavender and doesn't become too invasive. Look it up on the web and see if you like it. There is the common yellow variety, but it also comes in pink and white. This would depend on how high you want your screen to be. If you want something taller, then consider amelanchier. That has very pretty panicles of snow white flowers with pink tips that look a bit like lilly of the valley.

[frigg.livejournal.com]

Oh! I looked up broom, they grow wild here. When I was a kid, I loved brushing them with my fingers summer-late summer and hear the seed pods pop. Actually, I still do it.

Amelanchier is pretty, I like it very much.

Heh, it's funny that each country seems to have its own version of Miracle Grow and that it's equally ineffective. So far I've found a 4-1-7 (won't be using this one) and a 14-3-15 fertilizer, no 20-8-20 (still looking, though), but I'm also looking at cow and chicken manure, I've been told that chicken is the better of the two.

And great idea about the slugs, it'll save me a lot of work with gathering them and killing them, and the hedgehogs, toads and frogs will take care of the rest. :)

[darkspires.livejournal.com]

Your choice of shit, your nose and you that will put up with the offending aroma. Chicken shit smells the worst and don't buy fresh cow shit. It has to sit at least a year or it will burn your plants. It is also better to get the commercially bagged stuff as it has been cooked to destroy the wild seeds contained therein. If you go with natural then you will be weeding for the rest of your life.

Yes, Miracle Grow. It a commercial catch penny that is totally useless, except for slimming your wallet. Why am I not surprised you have a version of this useless product?

[frigg.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Good points. I just checked the manure again. Both are commercial products. The cow dung appears to have been treated and is odour and weed free, the chicken manure not, so I guess the latter is out. I'll probably end up with the standard NPK fertilizer and some bags of sphagnum. :)

Work!

[pingdk aka patti (from livejournal.com)]

Holy fields -that looks like a ton of work!

Gorgeous dog :)

Re: Work!

[frigg.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it is. The good part is that I lost 3 kgs since I started gardening...haha.

And thank you! You have great dogs as well. I love the snow photos of them. :)

[toeknuckles.livejournal.com]

what a beautiful dog!

[frigg.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)

[navicat.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Look at all that open space! *dies of jealousy*

and Lia is beautiful.

[frigg.livejournal.com]

*lol*
Well, that open space tends to fill with weeds, but it's great for dog-romping around.

and thank you. :)