Shane's Vegetable Farm

It's been a while for this thread. It's like summer today, so I'm hardening off my eggplant and a few broccoli plants.
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Open sez me, eggplant. Still a couple weeks before planting. Got some very cool nights here until the 18th.
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I have one pot plant, Gorilla Frost. Been torturing it for 4 months lol. Being in a window, it wants to flower so I'm repotting again and banging into a 12/12 tent. Yes, I'm planting it deep!
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Getting ready to plant some stuff. Beds at this point are almost entirely recycled promix hp from indoors on top.of piled up decaying brush and cardboard.. And weeds, lots of weeds. They come so fast, especially violets. They are pretty easy to clean up if you have a good buzz and a hori hori. Broccoli taking off now too.
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15 years ago these beds were really pretty but completely unsustainable. Constant war with the weeds. Then we simplified to a more formal scheme with boxwoods and dwarf roses. Installed landscape cloth topped with mulch. The mulch broke down quickly then became colonized by weeds, and this winter killed the roses dead and damaged a boxwood. This time we went from 3 boxwoods down to 2 and much larger rose varieties. And I am installing a double layer of heavy duty landscape cloth and topping that with a couple inches of river rock. I also lifted every edging block, and removed the creeping weeds from between them. I hope I can keep this neat for 15 years, I get tired of do overs.
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Lack of snow and dog pee zotzed my lower lawn pretty good last winter. That's next on the restoration list.
 
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