I've created garden journals in the past, along with using on-line garden planners that incorporated notes, but nothing like a GLOG. So, here goes!
The planner I've used the past couple of years generates an image of the garden, along with a plant list. My home is a development in a wooded area, on the side of a hill, so all the trees and critters makes it next to impossible to garden. I do have a few things I grow in pots on our deck, like kitchen herbs and one or two tomatoes, but for all intents and purposes, I don't garden at home.
[SIZE=small]The community garden where I do garden, requires a lot of prep work. It's a County-run community garden, so you live by their rules. And, their rules say you give the garden back at the end of the year, they mow it then and disc it at the beginning of each new year. So, every spring, you essentially prepare a new garden. [/SIZE]
My two 30'x30' plots are, fortunately, connected but, unfortunately, the land slopes diagonally across them. Each year, after the gardens are disced, I move dirt from the high end to the low end and lay out raised beds to help counter the flow of water when the summer downpours come. The soil from the pathways goes toward raising the beds in the low side of the garden.
At any rate, my garden is my therapy. It feeds the gardener, the artist and the chef in me. This is my 2018 layout, designed by me, but generated [SIZE=12.8px]by the planner[/SIZE]:
Here's a direct link to the image: https://www.growveg.com/uploads/plans/927422.jpg
Eighteen hundred square feet is a lot for one person to garden without any power tools or machinery, so there's about 450 square feet at the east end that will get planted in cover crop this year. It's a "keyhole" garden, something new for me. Theoretically, all the growing areas of the garden can be reached from a pathway, eliminating the need to walk on any bed. However, I have a few mesh-enclosed "hoop houses" I've built to grow the most pest-prone veggies... cucumbers, eggplant, zucchini, & bush beans... and they are all located at the high end of the garden, outside of the "keyhole" area. That area will also house a 55 gallon water tank, two chairs, an umbrella and, a prerequisite in any of my gardens, a small folding table to hold cold beverages..
True to the past few years, it's already proving to be another weird weather year. The gardens opened May 1, as it's been too wet here to disc. On May 2, I put up my flag, perimeter stakes and fencing, and it started raining again. The east-west trench is dug, and I decided to concentrate on getting the beds in order, as I haven't had a chance to get any of the onions, beets or lettuce in yet.
The lettuce and onions are sitting on the window box at my kitchen window, waiting for dirt day:
Pepper, tomato and eggplant starts went pretty well this year. Only a couple of variety of tomatoes, one grape, one sauce type and one saladette gave me fits, dropping their lowest branches, acting as if they had the wilt. But, they are still growing, so I just isolated them from the others. They've all been moved outside onto the deck, as they've grown too large for my indoor grow area, some of the peppers over a foot tall at this point.
They have been potted on to 4" pots and that's where they'll stay until dirt day. The only disappointment was a peach biquinho, which never germinated, and I'm out of space in the garden, so it's no great loss.
That's not the case for the tomatillos. They are getting HUGE, toppling over, so they will go into a couple gallon pots.
Here's the entire plan, including plant list. Hope the link works.
https://www.growveg.com/garden-plans/927422/
Soooooooooo, that is the beginning of my GLOG. Until dirt day! Hope you enjoy following my GLOG!
The planner I've used the past couple of years generates an image of the garden, along with a plant list. My home is a development in a wooded area, on the side of a hill, so all the trees and critters makes it next to impossible to garden. I do have a few things I grow in pots on our deck, like kitchen herbs and one or two tomatoes, but for all intents and purposes, I don't garden at home.
[SIZE=small]The community garden where I do garden, requires a lot of prep work. It's a County-run community garden, so you live by their rules. And, their rules say you give the garden back at the end of the year, they mow it then and disc it at the beginning of each new year. So, every spring, you essentially prepare a new garden. [/SIZE]
My two 30'x30' plots are, fortunately, connected but, unfortunately, the land slopes diagonally across them. Each year, after the gardens are disced, I move dirt from the high end to the low end and lay out raised beds to help counter the flow of water when the summer downpours come. The soil from the pathways goes toward raising the beds in the low side of the garden.
At any rate, my garden is my therapy. It feeds the gardener, the artist and the chef in me. This is my 2018 layout, designed by me, but generated [SIZE=12.8px]by the planner[/SIZE]:
Here's a direct link to the image: https://www.growveg.com/uploads/plans/927422.jpg
Eighteen hundred square feet is a lot for one person to garden without any power tools or machinery, so there's about 450 square feet at the east end that will get planted in cover crop this year. It's a "keyhole" garden, something new for me. Theoretically, all the growing areas of the garden can be reached from a pathway, eliminating the need to walk on any bed. However, I have a few mesh-enclosed "hoop houses" I've built to grow the most pest-prone veggies... cucumbers, eggplant, zucchini, & bush beans... and they are all located at the high end of the garden, outside of the "keyhole" area. That area will also house a 55 gallon water tank, two chairs, an umbrella and, a prerequisite in any of my gardens, a small folding table to hold cold beverages..
True to the past few years, it's already proving to be another weird weather year. The gardens opened May 1, as it's been too wet here to disc. On May 2, I put up my flag, perimeter stakes and fencing, and it started raining again. The east-west trench is dug, and I decided to concentrate on getting the beds in order, as I haven't had a chance to get any of the onions, beets or lettuce in yet.
The lettuce and onions are sitting on the window box at my kitchen window, waiting for dirt day:
Pepper, tomato and eggplant starts went pretty well this year. Only a couple of variety of tomatoes, one grape, one sauce type and one saladette gave me fits, dropping their lowest branches, acting as if they had the wilt. But, they are still growing, so I just isolated them from the others. They've all been moved outside onto the deck, as they've grown too large for my indoor grow area, some of the peppers over a foot tall at this point.
They have been potted on to 4" pots and that's where they'll stay until dirt day. The only disappointment was a peach biquinho, which never germinated, and I'm out of space in the garden, so it's no great loss.
That's not the case for the tomatillos. They are getting HUGE, toppling over, so they will go into a couple gallon pots.
Here's the entire plan, including plant list. Hope the link works.
https://www.growveg.com/garden-plans/927422/
Soooooooooo, that is the beginning of my GLOG. Until dirt day! Hope you enjoy following my GLOG!
Dirt day! I am READY!
), and hope for the best. Yesterday, when I suckered the tomatoes, the new suckers appeared pretty healthy, so maybe all is not lost. And, I still have two Lucky Tigers on the deck that I cut completely back, just short of their lowest sucker(s), and they may come around.