Fall Garden
26-Oct-08
I put in a fall vegetable garden today. It’s our first fall garden. We do a lot of herbs around the yard, and hot peppers in the summer. We tried tomatoes for a while, but in general summer gardening in Texas feels like a fight.
I’m looking forward to some fall and winter gardening. A lot of the gardening biz is new to me, because in the past I’ve been lazy and let Mike do it. Time for new habits.
We cleared out our plots, which had become home for some amaranth and yucca and irises and weeds. I tilled our clayey soil and mixed a bunch of Revitalizer Compost into it, then put in (in order):
- chives
- broccoli
- shallots
- radicchio
- kale
- beets (2 rows)
- spinach
- strawberries (2 rows)
- garlic
Hopefully my sequence is good. I spent some time planning it against companion planting matrices.
Now I’m thinking about how to keep critters away. I put cayenne pepper along the perimeter, on the advice of Ruth, Mike’s ninety-something family neighbor in Beaumont. But I already noticed a grackle showing undue interest in that particular part of the yard. Earth-friendly pest control recommendations are very welcome.