With the first round of plants laid out in the garden, I still had room for more plants in some of the other raised beds. I had to get more dirt to further fill some raised beds as well as the drum planters for the most recent trees. Even the bucket planters in the Kennel Greenhouse need to be filled with dirt to get them ready to be able to plant stuff, even before finishing the actual structure. Unlike the one local hardware store where I picked up the first batch of plants, I ended up checking out Lowe's for a better selection of plants, albeit at higher prices. I grabbed another batch of sweet potato plants so I can get another round of those going in some of the raised beds like we did last year. Unfortunately it is a little too late for regular potatoes so I didn't even bother to grab any of those. Besides, after planting some other plants in the planters that would've held potatoes, I wouldn't have the room for the number of eyes that would've been available anyway. Another selection that I picked up from Lowe's was sweet pea plants. We did get these last year and they were actually pretty decent producers, yielding plenty of pods to allow us to cook up bean pod stews with bacon and potatoes and sometimes gumbo/soups with a bunch of other veggies. These plants will require some form of trellis when they get bigger in order to support the plants vines. More than likely I will have to spring for more tomato cages as I had used for last year's bean plants. At least the tomato cages are a pretty universal device that can work for tomatoes, beans and even cucumbers. Another unique plant that I found at Lowe's was spaghetti squash. This squash has insides that mimic spaghetti, and if I'm not mistaken, can be cooked up in much the same way as the starchy grain based original. This is an heirloom variety of squash, meaning the seeds harvested from the squash can be saved and used with the knowing that the offspring will reproduce the same plant as the parent plants. Of course these plants were a little pricier but worth it if seeds can be saved from these veggies to reproduce more plants later on. The last thing in this session of planting was a pair of basil plants, herbs. These are one of my favorite herbs due to its aromatic leaves and the flavor it imparts into soups and stews. I planted these plants in the same raised bed that I used for the herbs last year and that still currently has a couple of herbs that overwintered well enough to come right back this spring. With a dose of some fertilizer, all these herbs should be off to a hearty start and a healthy run this growing season. Even with all this planting that was done, there is still plenty more to do as far as getting the garden more complete. As stated before, the bucket beds and drum beds in the greenhouse need dirt and micro irrigation set up so I can grow plants in these mediums even before the greenhouse is complete. The drum planters that I set up on one end of the garden to transplant some fruit trees will need more dirt and even strawberries to fill the empty dirt around the trees to create more of these mini "food forests" for the garden to optimize the production of the garden. I still need to get the hydroponics gardens either completed or repaired so I can put them into play as well. If I don't get more apparatus online to grow summer plants, I can at least have the stuff ready to grow for the fall season, namely greens like lettuce and spinach plants, maybe some potatoes can be grown then after the other summer plants were harvested from the beds I would use for potatoes.
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