Friday, May 1, 2009

Lamenting on Lists and Layout

I thought May Day was a good time to fire up the garden blog. The previous post dealt with a little history and what to expect. However, we need to start getting into the nitty gritty now. Planting will be commencing very soon, and probably would have already started if not for the cool rainy weather we have been experiencing. The garden has been tilled and naturally fertilized with the help of chicken excrement from A&A's barn. I wanted to share the seed list and the garden layout.

From Jungs:
Autumn Explosion Hybrid Indian Corn
Connecticut Field Pumpkin
Early Sweet Sugar Pie Pumpkin
Miniature Pumpkin
Cosmic Mix Cosmos
Apple Blossom Orbit Hybrid Geranium
Hot Pink Orbit Hybrid Geranium
Giant Climbing Mix Nasturtiums

From Breck's
:
Supreme Gladiolus Collection

From HenryField's:
White Dutch Clover
Topcrop Bush Beans
Golden Butterwax Bush Beans
Blue Lake Pole Beans
Tendersweet Carrots
Peaches & Cream (SE) Corn
Miss Pickler Hybrid Cucumber
Moss-Curled Parsley
Alaska Hybrid Cantaloupe
Howden's Field Pumpkin
Onion Chives Herb
Mammoth Dill Herb
Field's Sweet Salad Hybrid Cucumber
Harrier Hybrid Beets
Pickin’ & Grinnin’ Bush Beans
Miragreen Garden Peas
Sugar Sprint Snap Peas
Buckwheat

and From Gurney's:
Large and Small Mix Gourds
Decorative Mix Gourds
California Giant Mix Zinnias
Cut and Come Again Zinnia
Floating Row Cover
Kandy Korn Hybrid Sweet Corn
Rainbow Ornamental Corn
Mild Mesclun Mix Greens
Early White Vienna Kohlrabi
Mammoth Gray Stripe Sunflower
Sunspot Sunflower
Hybrid Lil' Indian Ornamental Corn
Cherry Belle Radish
Table Ace Hybrid Acorn Winter Squash
Crimson Sensation Hybrid Watermelon
Safari Marigold Mix
Honey ‘n Pearl Hybrid Sweet Corn

Here is a picture of the overall site taken in early spring. It has since been tilled. I assume Andrea has the chicken excrement cleaned off her camera lens for when this baby starts getting green.



Below is the overall plan for the garden courtesy of Andrea (she was clarking on it):



Below are enlarged layouts showing detailed areas within the overall garden. The first one is for the Corn & Melons:



This enlarged plan is the layout for the Potatoes & Onions:


This final enlarged plan is of the Tomatoes and Herbs:



Let the planting begin. Perhaps we can get some potatoes in this weekend since it is supposed to be nice.

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