Minnetonka Garden Update

I have a few days to catch up on, but I am going to split them into multiple posts.  Just too variant too put into one.

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On Wednesday I met Frank at the Minnetonka garden to do maintenance work.  That would be July 30th.  We have not yet had a ripe tomato at the garden there, though there is a Joe Lauerer which will be dead ripe by, well, today, and maybe Frank went back there to pick and eat it, but with it just being one, not a really pressing thing.

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Tomatoes needed to be tucked into cages, tied onto stakes, and the garden needed to be hoed and weeded.  I worked with a stirrup hoe and weeded, Frank tied up tomatoes and tucked them into cages.  We have more than a hundred tomato plants at this garden, whose dimensions are 26X36 feet, along with about 40 Jimmy Nardello plants, and a few basil.

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In two and a half hours we had it done.  Every bed weeded, hoed, watered.  Paths between beds have a disturbingly large amount of vigorous weeds, which Frank broke his electric weed whacker knocking back the day before.  Starting to contemplate laying platic over the paths, or, even, (God forbid) herbicides.

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The Jimmy Nardello peppers are all setting heavily, and we are hoping the generous spacing, while sacrificing numbers of plants, generates the same if not more fruits.  We will have to wait to see.  Beds with 20 plants this year had 45 plants last year, which left them really crowded.

So that is the Minnetonka garden at the moment.

 

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