Today was another good planting day for above ground crops, so this morning I put in the Great Northern beans and the okra. I sowed one row of beans next to the howling mob corn, and then two rows of okra next to the beans. The Great Northern bush beans like a little shade, so hopefully, putting them between corn and okra will give them just that.
It was a gorgeous, gray day, perfect for working outside. Maybe the gray will promise some rain to water in what I've planted so far.
My rattlesnake beans are more than ready to get in the ground, but I'm waiting on New Daddy to get some stakes and help me string up a trellis for them. The trellis I bought is huge (5 foot by 30 foot netting), so we'll have to cut it down some. Tomorrow is a good day for root crops, but my beets aren't ready to be transplanted yet. Maybe I'll try the radishes? New Daddy is also going to till my front plot for me, even though it's not exactly a barren day.
I'm realizing that I should have started my Marigold earlier, so I'd have plants to intersperse around the garden as I plant other crops. Right now, my little seedlings are nowhere near being ready! Maybe I'll read this next year and give them an earlier start. Really, I should give everything an earlier start, but I'm always scared of a late frost. I don't want to invest effort into something, and then have it fail. So, I wait until it's almost too late, and risk not having anything mature at all. Hmmm... doesn't make much sense, does it?
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