Our plan had been to put posts in concrete and hang the cattle panels on those. I would use them for tomatoes, climbing squash, pumpkins, loofah, grapevines, etc. Digging a hole here is torture because it’s almost solid rock about 4″ below the grass. I feel bad for Vince having to dig and do all that work for my garden hobby.
Yesterday he moved the cattle panels from where they had been – just leaning up against some barrel – and put them against the fence so he could cut the grass where they had been. I saw that and I thought . . that will work! I asked him if he could wire one panel up to the fence posts, and if it would be ok if I put down cardboard and put the tomatoes along that panel. It’s on a hill and I was concerned that once Fall arrives and the tomatoes and cardboard are removed, the grass will be dead and with water and snow, we’ll have a mess but Vince said he could plant grass seeds or maybe put rocks/pebbles there if I want to keep a cattle panel in that spot.
At this point, obviously I’m planting in anything I can find. It would be much nicer if all my pots matched but I was putting plants in everything I could find once I ran out of grow bags.
Everything is now planted – all the peppers, all the tomatoes, all the sweet potatoes. Now, I sit back, pull weeds, fertilize, water, pick bugs off the plants and hope for the best.
Here are a few pictures as of last night. I pulled a few pieces of garlic to see how close it is to harvesting. It still needs a bit of time but with the rain predicted for the next 5 or 6 days, I’m a bit concerned about the garlic.
Yesterday when I was out working in the garden, I asked Vince if, when we met, he would ever have thought how much I liked playing in the dirt. He said “I don’t remember what I thought when we met!” Not sure how to take that but probably not asking what he meant is the best idea. 🙂
I do love my garden!