Sharing the Roses

Another work day in the garden. We make a good team: Mr S digs the beds and adds soil amendments, and I follow along and plant the seedlings. We finished the first tomato bed today, a bit earlier than our usual planting. New this season: we did not use fish heads under the tomatoes as we've been doing for the past few years. It got to be too much trouble to track down the fish, and the planting holes had to be 18 inches deep, which is pretty hard to dig. So we used fish meal instead, and I made the holes only about a foot down. We traditionally add: crushed egg shells, two aspirin, bone meal, rabbit manure, Sustane and a handful of compost for each plant. There are six Early Girls, one Sungold cherry, and one Big Beef, a new variety for me that came highly recommended. There is some controversy around Early Girls and Monsanto, but they are still hands-down the best variety for our microclimate, especially since we dry-farm them, cutting off all water as soon as the plants are established. 

Sometimes I walk in our garden and look all around and I can hardly stand how beautiful it is with so many colors everywhere. It just fills me up to move in a slow circle and take it all in.