Quick Trip

I am winding up a quick trip to my garden in Ontario.
What can you do to a garden in 3 weeks. Actually quite a bit as it turns out.
The weeds have been removed and the bare earth planted. I have sown  lots of beans, peas and sunflowers from seed I have saved over the years.Any other areas I find the space I have sprinkled alyssum seeds. I'll call it all green manure if I don't return this summer and if I do get back there may be something to harvest.
Lots of herbs growing strong- both perennials and self sown. The apple trees have lots of small apples and the flowers are elbowing each other for space, so not so many weeds there.

I may or may not be back later in the summer, but hopefully I have done enough to get the garden through another season.
Now it is time to pack for the return trip to B.C and see how the garden has fared there. I have anxiously been following the weather there and it seems like the rain fall has been adequate, so if the deer kept out all should be well.

Fence finished

Finally with the help of some friends we finished the fencing that is to keep the deer from devouring my garden. There are a few finishing touches to be done but the gate is in place and the garden should be safe when I go back to Ontario for a few weeks.

A final touch to the job was a sculpture done by John Leonard using some of the interesting drift wood we found on our excursions.

The garden is growing, though some things are doing better than others. The plastic came off early and the basil didn't like that one bit.
But we are harvesting lettuce, radish and pac choi, so the cold isn't bothering them at all.

The cilantro I wintered over are flowering, so lots of seeds for future plantings and curries.

A generous layer of the local sea soil compost has been applied to all the vege beds. That should set the gardens up for the summer.
Finally we had some rain. Six weeks with almost none! Hopefully there will be enough over the next few weeks while I'm away to keep things growing. At least the deer will be kept out.