{"id":10543,"date":"2011-06-01T10:25:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T16:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=10543"},"modified":"2011-06-01T10:25:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T16:25:49","slug":"in-the-garden-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=10543","title":{"rendered":"In the Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beltane\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New\u00a0 Garlic Moon<\/p>\n

One of those nights last night, unable to get to sleep, still rolling around awake at 1:00 a.m.\u00a0 Up a little bleary.\u00a0 Wrote\u00a0 few e-mails, then out in the orchard, first.\u00a0 I’ve had tent caterpillars on two trees.\u00a0 Each time I have removed the tent and stepped on it or crushed the worms.\u00a0 This is non-chemical pest control, a route I prefer and, as long as I’m not running a commercial operation, one I can pursue.<\/p>\n

Now I wander in the orchard, looking at seed pods (fruit) beginning to develop from the last of the blossoms which dropped this week.\u00a0 I’ll try to find worms and moths before they do \"2011-05-17_0805early-spring-2011\"damage and as long as I can I’ll follow pinch and destroy.\u00a0 After that, I think, right now anyway, that I’ll go with Gary Reuter, the bee rangler for Marla Spivak.\u00a0 I’ll just put up with wormy apples.\u00a0 This is partly out of regard for the bees who have enough pressure of them and they don’t need an added pesticide load from our orchard, but it’s more out of a commitment to no pesticides, grow strong plants and let them fend for themselves.\u00a0 It’s worked reasonably well for me so far.<\/p>\n

(before the fall)<\/p>\n

After the orchard the potatoes were next.\u00a0 Now that the soil has warmed up the potatoes have begun to grow, their dark lobe shaped leaves appearing atop a fragile looking stalk.\u00a0 At this point the basics of potato culture involves mounding earth over the stalk as it grows.\u00a0 That’s what I did today.\u00a0 In the long raised bed where I have most of the potatoes this year, I also have a bumper crop of asiatic lilies and tulips.<\/p>\n

I planted this bed originally as a cutting garden, years ago.\u00a0 The same fall the bed was built I went out to the Arboretum to a lily growers sale and bought Minnesota hardy bulbs.\u00a0 They’ve been in that bed ever since, maybe 10 years.\u00a0 Boy, have they enjoyed that bed.\u00a0 They’ve started lilies all over the place.\u00a0 That means that as I mound the potatoes I have to move around the lily bulbs that have generated.\u00a0 I hate to just throw them away because they’re so hardy and have been with me so long.\u00a0 I’m trying right now to raise vegetables and flowers in the same bed.\u00a0 That’s also worked reasonably well for me.\"06-28-10_earlylilies\"<\/p>\n

I also mounded the leeks as my last action in the garden this morning.\u00a0 In the case of leeks the mounding blanches the stalk, keeps it white underground and increases the usable part of the leek.<\/p>\n

That done, I’ve come inside to work on my Latin.\u00a0 Pentheus, now, Book III:509-to the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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