Filling garden gaps
'Tis the season to fill in holes.
Inevitably, my garden ends up with gaps where old seeds didn't
germinate or where my earliest planted peas only came up thinly.
Not only are gaps a waste of space, they're also a weed magnet.
So on Wednesday, I set out to fill the gaps with sweet potato slips and
with broccoli and swiss chard seeds.
The hardest part of gap-filling is yet to come, though --- remembering
to keep the seeds watered until they germinate. Last year, I
planted several beds of fall broccoli but didn't get a single plant in
our drought. I hope to do better this year. The
weather is currently cooperating, dropping three tenths of an inch of
rain immediately after I planted.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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