March 27, 2010

    Today my uncle and I went and got a half cubic yard of 3-way compost blend for $18.  3-way compost consists of composted cow manure, sand, and bark compost.  He unloaded while I spread the compost in the garden.  We had enough to cover everything by just placing compost at the spots where there will be plants.

 It was a good day for the job; the temperature was in the upper 60s and it was sunny with just a little breeze here and there.  It is supposed to rain for the next several days, so that will get the compost watered in.
    I want to have watermelons and cantaloupes for July 4th, and both of these are 80-85 day crops.  So I counted days backwards, and found out that I should plant the melons between the 7th and the 15th of April.  After I harvest them, I will plant in the same spots spaghetti squash (100 days) to be ready mid-October.  I don’t know if planting two similar crops in the same space concurrently is a good idea or not; I guess I’ll find out.
    I repositioned the tomato cages, and it looks like there’s room for twice as many plants as I had originally thought.  I was hoping to have at least four Brussels sprouts plants; now it looks like I can.