Date: May 21, 2013
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| What I used to notch my garden so that I would have my square-foot grid: Twine, tape measurerer, pencil, and a big saw |
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| You can see how the plants started to bend up toward the sun |
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| Dug two trenches - pretty deep because my plants are so leggy |
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| Nice and deep! |
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| What I used to dig |
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| Nutrients I added to the trenches: leaves, bananas, and eggshells |
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| Egg shells: adds calcium - hope this helps with bottom end rot (BER). I got it last year and it's due to lack of calcium |
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| Bananas: adds potasium |
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| Leaves - adds carbon |
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| Put all the ingredients together plus added some of my compost - these plants should be happy :) |
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| How I placed my plants |
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| Close up - you can see how the roots are in front of the plant |
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| Here's where things went bad - while I had my plants lieing on their sides so they could reach upwards, we had a really hard rain storm that beat the tops of several of my plants off. Note to self: Check the rain forecast prior to setting your plants on their sides!....lesson learned. |
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| Poor, poor baby |
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| All planted |
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| Remember all the roots are in front so these plants were bent into an upright position. After a few days, they should naturally straighten out. |
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