Garden Layout

We planted the garden today (Sunday may 22, 2011). Here is the layout we have chosen:

We have two more rows of beans to plat (10 and 11), and we'll plant the okra in June.

Begin Planting, 2011

We began planting our garden today (Thursday May 18, 2011). We prepared the beds for the gigantic pumpkins and two rows of peppers and one row of tomatoes. We planed:

• 4 giant pumpkins
• 12 tomatoes:
  • San Marzano
  • Park Whopper
  • Mortgage Lifter

Furthermore, we laid down black plastic (special stuff from Johnny Seeds) to warm up enough row for 5 eggplants.

Rototilling before the rain

It is supposed to be hot and rainy for the rest of the week, so I tilled the new part of my garden today. My garden is now 40x80 square feet, plus another 40x20 square feet adjacent to the south end. The shape of our garden is the brown part of this sketch:

I tilled the upper, 40x20 part today.

Planting Cherry Trees

We planted four cherry trees on Sunday:

(That's me.)

We planted two dwarf Bing Cherry trees and two, uh, I can't remember.