It took some time, but I finally finished the plot layout for 2014.
A few comments about this years' planting:
- I wanted to try for more Spring/Fall crops. We're going to plant kale and lettuce to add to the snow peas with that in mind.
- If you compare vs the 2013 layout, I switched the sides of the garden where the tomatoes/peppers are and where the beans are. Crop rotation.
- I'm gambling a little bit by starting the green beans adjacent to the garlic and shallots. I've done reading which indicates they don't like growing adjacent to each other. Hopefully, the few weeks that they'll overlap won't matter much.
- I wanted to move the watermelon trellis this year, but wasn't able to. I'd planned on putting it next to the bench and rotated 90 degrees from what I had last year with the trellis spanning two boxes. Unfortunately, there are shallots currently planted in that area. I've never grown those before, but from what I've read they're on a similar growing season as garlic. If I end up harvesting the shallots in June, that wouldn't work since I plan to transplant the watermelon starters in May.
- I'm going to rotate the watermelon trellis 180 degrees such that the downward slope faces southwest. In my reading, it appears that cucumbers have difficulty flowering when they're over 95 degrees for very long. My hope is to grow them in what shade that is provided by the watermelons. It'll be interesting to see if that works and what I end up having to do to trellis the cucumbers, themselves.
- We added a second box of Egyptian Walking Onions this past Fall. Wifey transplanted some of the fallen bulbs from the original box into the box that had had the cosmos, nasturtiums, and a central volunteer tomato plant. By having two boxes of them, we're hoping to be able to harvest more of the onion blubs for use this year.
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