{"id":240,"date":"2012-06-10T22:36:07","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T02:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rt23.com\/hgjournal\/?p=240"},"modified":"2025-11-27T13:26:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T18:26:43","slug":"2012-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rt23.com\/hgjournal\/2012-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

After last year’s failure in my shady yard, I had a landscaper clear some trees and bushes away, fencing a new area for my garden where there would be more sunlight. So far I planted “Silver Queen” and “Peaches and Cream” (bi-color) sweet corns alternating the rows of each. I also planted Cucumber, Watermelon and Pumpkin seeds. After a little over a week, the corn, cucumber, sunflower and pumpkin seeds germinated and could be seen breaking the soil surface. There has been quite a bit of rain lately, but when it doesn’t rain, I have been watering the garden with an osciillating sprinkler
\nfor 30 minutes in the morning.<\/p>\n

I also bought eggplant and pepper plants from a garden center and heirloom tomato plants from a farm plant sale. The heirlooms included Ramapo, Husky Red, Sweet Chelsea, Czech Bush and Early Girl. I bought one Roma Tomato plant from Walmart. I planted them approximately 24 inches apart and immediately put them in tomato cages.<\/p>\n

July 22, 2012 – So far I picked a few small tomatoes and everything is growing pretty well. \u00a0The peppers are kinda small and the eggplants have many flowers but no fruit as of yet. \u00a0I noticed some missing tomatoes so I think there may be an animal getting into the garden. I checked the fence and found some places where the fence had some openings and closed them. \u00a0I am going to install a wildlife camera to monitor the situation. <\/p>\n

December 2012
\nAfter installing the camera, I didn’t find any large animals in the garden, but mostly the damage was from squirrels and groundhogs or rabbits.<\/p>\n