My Garden
I have finished planting my garden here at the nursery.
Last year we experimented with using a ground cover fabric over the entire garden after we had worked it up and added compost. This worked so well at keeping the weeds down and the vegetables clean. Since it was an experiment, we did not use as good of a grade of fabric that we should’ve had we known how well it would work out. It did wear in several spots but it will serve the purpose this year, and this fall we will rip it out, till in more compost and next spring lay down a heavy duty grade of landscape fabric.
For the many readers that follow Leif’s newspaper articles, you all know about our other experiment last year with the banana peels and the tomatoes. We learn from our customers just as much as they learn from us. We had a customer in last spring who had used banana peels when planting their tomatoes and the plants grew huge and the fruit was equally as large. My garden last year produced the biggest tomatoes I have ever gotten.
Once again, I planted my tomatoes with a banana peel. Except for one Roma tomato plant. I planted two Roma plants, side by side, and one was planted with a peel and the other without. This will be the true test for the banana peel theory. We’ll be posting updates and photos as the summer progresses.
