With many of the raised beds, especially in the greenhouse, now filled with dirt, it would only be right to put these areas to use planting more stuff. It would be a waste of space to not plant anything extra so I can increase the yields for this season, so we went ahead and picked up some more plants. Another thing too is the idea that some of the stuff we planted initially didn't fare too well. The green bean plants we did get, aren't really doing all to well, with maybe a couple plants still actually somewhat green. I'm not going to hold my breath on these plants coming back. I also lost probably three small cucumber plants in one of the drum planters, the seedlings must've went into shock when they were initially planted and never really recovered so with the weather that we had, these plants didn't survive. We got a couple of snap bean plants, a six pack of cucumbers, another six pack of creole tomatoes (heat resistant variety), a basil plant and two pumpkin plants. I took the two pumpkin plants and planted them in the one drum planter that held the now defunct cucumbers. I took each of the two snap bean plants and planted them in each bed that held the now defunct bean plants. We still have one more bed with a couple bean plants that are still holding on. Right now the other two beds each have one plant. Hopefully they'll do a lot better than the last group did. As for the cucumbers, I planted four of them in the lowest drum raised bed, the one made from the shop fan body. This bed wasn't planted at all and was actually holding three small pots with catnip plants, staged by the sprinkler so they can catch water when the irrigation system was running. I moved the catnips around so they can still take advantage of the sprinkler while still accommodating the cukes in the soil of the bed. The other two cukes in the six pack were planted in the one drum bed in the greenhouse that is filled up with dirt. It's just as well to have two plants within the drum planter instead of multiple plants like if I planted peppers. Once these plants start running they're going to need all the room they can get. I'll end up hanging something that can serve as a ladder for the cuke vines to climb on at a later date. In the greenhouse this is easily doable since I can run tubes along the ceiling to hold the trellises for the cukes, or even tomatoes, which we'll get to next. The six pack of tomatoes went in six of the cat litter buckets within the greenhouse, similar to the cat litter bucket beds outside of the greenhouse that are currently holding tomatoes. Next to the six tomatoes, I planted the one basil plant in the seventh bucket, leaving one more bucket. Now only reason I didn't plant in this one with anything is because recently I tried to germinate some tomato seeds I harvested from some store bought tomatoes, and while some were sprouted and eventually rotted because I didn't get to them in time, there were some seeds that were just starting to sprout. I threw this whole mess into the dirt of that eighth bucket to see if any of the seeds would take and start growing. So far, no dice. As an update, a lot of the plants we planted earlier are doing rather well. The spaghetti squash we planted in the pair of drum beds are growing rather well, sending vines out, with plenty of flowers growing, which should start forming the fruits or veggies or whatever the hell squash is classified as. The okra plants in the greenhouse are also off to a good start, with each plant in their own bucket, growing good. I'll need to hit all these plants with a hefty dose of fertilizer to give them that turbo boost to really see them off into the clouds hopefully. Another issue that needed to be addressed was that of landscaping. The area behind the north fence, where the chicken yard is, started to become overgrown with the typical weeds. As an added bonus a couple dead trees fell down from past storms. One tree fell just shy of hitting the fence T bone style and the other tree fell parallel to the fence, falling almost perfectly alongside the fence, missing it. The fence remained undamaged. Of course this still doesn't take away from the fact that there's two dead trees laying on the ground by the fence that need disposal. Even after weeding the area up to the trees on both sides, I will still need to come through there with the saw and hedge trimmer to clean up all this mess to open the area back up again.
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