Because we rent our Beach House from Saturday to Saturday it gives us one day to unpack and unwind before jumping back into the work week. It also gave me some time to harvest the gardens.
As you may have noticed, I have said very little about my gardens. Nope, not hardly at all because they have been such a HUGE disappointment!
This year I added a bigger veggie trug and purchased some Miracle Grow raised bed soil from Lowe's, thinking it would be great. First mistake...from the moment I opened the first bag, I was concerned because there were so many big chunks of wood in it and I know wood can rob the soil of nitrogen, but being the trusting person that I am, I figured that they had balanced it somehow.
Holy Moly, I have never seen a garden fail like this bed has. I swear that the soil is toxic!
Needless to say I did not get anything worth mentioning from this bed. :(
So this year it was just herbs, lettuce and grape tomatoes that thrived. All of these were planted in the other 2 smaller beds that I have. Unfortunately I topped them off a bit with the Miracle grow as well, so they have not thrived as much as they usually do, but then again the lack of warm weather and sun at the beginning of summer might have something to do with this as well.
This weekend, I will be empting the big bed and getting rid of all of the soil. Trust me don't EVER buy this soil!! I looked online to see if others have had problems with it and oh my, the stories I read. Needless to say I will buying some good composted local soil to fill this bed along with with some peat and vermiculite.
So while I harvested the garden and tidied up the house and shop, Ken spent a good part of the day mowing the lawn and trimming.
When it was all finished, he wanted to sit outside and pretend that we were on vacation for just one more day, so pretend we did on this warm summer night.
