Tag: chiggers

  • Expanding

    Expanding

    On Monday, we got the green light to take over the three plots surrounding ours – #21, #23, and #28. This means we now have 6 plots at 15×20 feet each or 1800 sqft of garden real estate. We have plotted out the new sections and the July crop rotation for a few crops that will complete their growing cycle by mid-July (corn, cucumbers, cantaloupe, poppies). We are itching to get the garden into form but also itching because every time we break ground we unleash chiggers. Like many of our cucumbers in the coming days, we are in a pickle.

    Our new plotlandia
    Let’s see how much of this ends up as it is drawn and how much of it has to change due to our planning naiveté.

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  • One Rain

    It just takes one rain to make everything leap ahead in growth. Also, it just takes one rain to make the weeds in unoccupied plots go from ~12 inches high to 4 feet. I wish I had taken pictures but we harvested a cucumber and patty pan squash today, not out of desire, but out of necessity. That’s a first! Also Sophie installed a huge pinwheel.

    Still waiting on the city to tell us whether we can have the 3 plots full of weeds to turn into our root garden and also to tell us what they can do to help with the scourge of chiggers. We haven’t been able to bask in our garden since the chiggers arrived. It’s hard on all of us, but especially Jeromey who reacts harshest to the bites.

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