2006 Garden Update

This year's garden is almost in. I still have tomatos and peppers to plant. I'm also waiting to finish planting the bean seeds until this weekend. I read that you should add Legume Inoculant to the soil for a better yeild. It fixes nitrogen to the soil. Noone around here sells it at garden centers, so I have to head to a Southern States store down in Moundsville to get some. The layout is almost identical this year, but the planting layout has changed a good bit. No broccoli or corn this year. Lots of pumpkin and watermelon back where the corn was. Added onions and garlic, additional eggplant and cucumbers. Also this year doing pole beans, so we've got a bunch of bean teepees set-up. Our strawberries are going nuts this year, tons of flowers have set, so I'm expecting a bumper crop soon. Also a much larger area dedicated to types of lettuce and spinach.

A major change has been the addition of the soaker hose system D added. I think its about 200 feet of soaker hose set up through out the garden. Last year we had a sprinkler set up and we watered just about everything BUT the garden. This should be a LOT more effective. He did a great job - it looks wonderful and works great too!