Chopped off the approx 29 corn plants at ground level and chopped the stalks into 6″ pieces with machete so they’d rot faster and left them in the garden. Dug 5 gallons of coffee grounds into ground where the corn had been. Found another 3 smallish ears, bringing total to 33 ears.
Dug up 60 medium-to-large onions from the 2′ x 8′ onion bed and spread them out on plastic on the lawn. Intend to let them dry in the sun for 3 days per Carla Emery, then store them. Got all the perennial weeds out that I could, mostly dandelions.
Dug 15 gallons of leaf compost into the ex-onion bed. That should be about all I have to do — next year that’s going to be the purslane bed. Wonder if I should buy seed or just depend on the seeds I know are mixed into the soil already.
Watered the swiss chard-beet-kohlrabi-kale bed. It’s been quite dry for last ten days.
I also watered the butternut up by the house. There are some very nice squash there — if we could have another ten frost-free days, I think we’d get some beauties.
Dug the last 8 feet or so of the first row of potatoes — not much yield in there, getting over close to the silver maple tree in the neighbor’s yard and its shade. Some potatoes had finger-sized pits eaten out of them, apparently the result of thin, 1/2″ long white worms. Don’t know what they are.
Ending and Beginning 