Draught and Some Things to Consider for Next Year


We are definitely in a draught. Yesterday was the first time in 10 days that we had any rain at all, and it was just a few spits with a big lightning light-show. Not even enough to fill the rain barrels. 

For next year: 
  • We probably want to skip the broccoli. Lots of space (16 square feet this year), and harvest was about 1.5 meals.
  • We might want more peppers.
  • Fewer zucchini. Sort of saw this one coming, but it's getting hard to keep up already, and the harvest season is young.
  • More pick & come again greens.
  • More fruit & perennials. 
  • Beans might not be worth the effort. Didn't like them too well this year, and its hard to find anything to do with them.
  • We should grow smaller cucumbers for pickling. The giant English ones just aren't made for that.
Also worth noting: bird netting doesn't stop rabbits, and neither do marigolds (which, I'd heard rumor they deter them.) This morning I went out to pick a couple of tomatoes and heard a thumping against the wood of the raised bed. There was a rabbit that then broke cover, burst through the marigolds & the bird netting, and ran away. Very cute. Not sure what it ate, but I think I need to install chicken wire around this very last (it was the first) bed that doesn't have chicken wire already.

 

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