I hope you all have enjoyed world naked gardening day! Thanks to Carly for giving me another reason for exhibitionism! I would include the link to the official wngd (.org) website, but there are sooo many naked people on it.
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| Am I naked in this photo? Only my neighbors know. |
PLANT SALES
Yesterday, Brooke and I attended the annual Red Butte Garden plant sale. Although I have some qualms with Red Butte Garden, I have to commend their plant sale. It's huge! It had a large variety of plants, including native Utah species!
While the Red Butte Garden plant sale was nice, I STRONGLY URGE you to attend the upcoming Wasatch Community Gardens Plant Sale on Saturaday, May 11th from 8am-1pm at Rowland Hall. It has some excellent plants, and the proceeds go to an excellent organization.
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| We bought two varieties of pepper, Golden Bell and Purple Beauties. I am very excited. |
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| This herb with the beautiful blue flowers is Borage! It is an excellent insect-repelling companion plant with squash and tomatoes. We bought and planted three today. |
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| Our first year attempting cantaloupe. I hope it gets along with squash, because I didn't check. I should have made a better garden plan. |
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| Here are our squash plants. We bought and planted a butternut squash and a spaghetti squash plant. I hope to grow these vertically. |
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| Squash, borage, and cantaloupe. |
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| I plan to buy most of my tomatoes from the highly anticipated Wasatch Community Gardens plant sale, but this one was interesting. It is a Siberian Tomato. It is supposed to be able to handle really low temps (~35F). |
MULCH
Mulch retains moisture, reduces erosion, eliminates soil compaction, and deters weeds.
The NRCS webpage on mulch suggests applying mulch after your soil has warmed up a bit in the spring.
Organic Gardening has a good list of types of mulch for your garden and the pros and cons of each. I went with straw, because it is inexpensive and easily accessible. The site warns that you should make you use a weed-free straw. I bought my straw at the IFA, which I found was super close to my house, so I am not sure if it is weed free.
The "for dummies" website also has a good comparison table.
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