What better time to plan for next year’s season than when you are are just wrapping up the current year’s gardens? The list of what went where this year, what worked and what didn’t, and what you loved vs what wasn’t inspiring is all fresh in your mind!
For 2009 at MsDebbieP’s House:- plant a second apple tree, getting better odds of a good harvest, if one tree doesn’t produce (tree already planted)
- move rhubarb, allowing more room by the shed (use the plants in flowerbeds in front yard, seems like a good idea)
- move current asparagus, placing it with the new patch
- raised beds worked great for making the most of the space and helping to keep the weeds down
- re-do the raised beds: the first one was too wide
- add a third raised bed
- get straw or white clover for between the raised beds
- beets: need twice as many planted (unless we just get them from my brother)
- onions: 1 bag of Spanish Onion bulbs was just right
- peas: plant more climbing peas (Mrs. Van variety, this year, was excellent)
- kohlrabi: plant further apart perhaps, to get better crop and plant early
- chick peas: lovely as a border plant perhaps… didn’t get any produce really
- salad greens: use the raised bed by the pool for this and do sequential planting early in spring (note: anise hissop is in north-east corner)
- green beans: plant 2 packages, perhaps a little wider apart next year, but this crop was really successful
- carrots: plant early, cover with screen to keep cats/dogs out until they start growing
- squash: plant by the shed and remove all the plants that come up in the main garden
- tomatoes: move to new location; stake early and sturdily; 2 plants of the cherry varieties should be enough;
- peppers: they sure did love the dirt and location they were in this year. Best crop ever!
- strawberries: cover in the new year
- cucumbers: nasturtiums – did they help? don’t know.
- blueberries: adjust the soil appropriately
- pie pumpkin: don’t know yet
- lemon balm: oh yah… can make the jelly any time .. prior to the “big canning” season
- barley: going to plant lots of it throughout the flowebeds
-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)
9 comments so far
Bon
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posted 77 days ago
Well that is quite the list MsD.That otta keep you pretty busy for awhile.(lol) very good idea listing everything like that.I will have to put that on my to-do list. ha ha ha
I keep saying I am going to list all my plants.But have I done it yet? Noooooo
-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more
MsDebbieP
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posted 77 days ago
no time like the present
-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)
GrandmaT
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posted 77 days ago
Boy I am impressed with your organization!!! With us in limbo I’m not sure what I am doing next year garden wise. Think my planning will have to wait until spring. But I sure love your idea for “down the road”!!!
-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b
MsDebbieP
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posted 77 days ago
well, what about a list of what you want to preserve next fall ? :) :)
-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)
Scott Hildenbrand
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posted 77 days ago
That’s quite a checklist.. I’d make one up like it, but I think I’d hurt my brain trying to figure out everything I need/want to do around the house.
As is I’m behind on the house fixerupidness. The bedroom wall has been waiting for that final skim coat for at least 2 months.. It’s not that bloody hard, I just procrastinate it.
-- Planting Daylilies in Kentucky, zone 6b
GrandmaT
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posted 77 days ago
Well that is a GREAT suggestion MsDeb!!! Could even get some recipes recorded … yah, that could be a nice little project. Hmmmmm, brain is going now … ;-)
-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b
jroot
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posted 54 days ago
I was thinking of making a list too, but I can’t find my pencil. LOL
Don’t question the Pie Pumpkin. Great gourd. My favourite pie…..not the usual thick pasty stuff, but the way my grandma made it. I have my own version of it with maple syrup. It is more like a custard.
Grandma Haines’s Pumpkin Pie makes 2 pies
2 cup: rich whole milk
2 large beaten eggs
1 ½ cups canned pure pumpkin or the real stuff
1 cup real maple syrup
2 Tbl melted butter or margarine
½ tsp ground cinnamon
¼ tsp nutmeg
½ tsp ground ginger
½ tsp salt
Two 9-inch unbaked pie shell
Put milk, eggs, pumpkin, syrup, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and salt in blender. Process at medium speed until blended. Pour into pie shell.
Bake in preheated 400F oven 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 350F. Bake 35 minutes, or until centre is still soft but no longer jiggly. Cool to room temperature. Refrigerate to firm up before cutting.
If you want a neat pie crust recipe with no egg, but uses gingerale, let me know. I use it all the time now. Simple and easy to use.
-- jroot
GrandmaT
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posted 54 days ago
Gonna have to try this recipe … thanks for sharing it jroot.
-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b
MsDebbieP
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posted 54 days ago
gingerale!!! Sounds interesting. Please post!
-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)