4/3/2012:
Keyhole gardening is intended as high-density gardening, the thought being that plants with less sun hardiness could be shielded by the hardier plants that originated in tropical realms. So I had an unoccupied corner right of the notch, opposite the tomato corner. What goes well with tomatoes and peppers? If you are a fan of, or love someone who is a fan of Italian cuisine...
So back to composting/mulching- when 99 percent of all compostable kitchen scraps end up on the compost pile, you're bound to have a few viable seeds come up with a freshly turned layer of composted mulch destined for the garden. Given that, it's not that big a surprise when you start seeing these:
Keyhole gardening is intended as high-density gardening, the thought being that plants with less sun hardiness could be shielded by the hardier plants that originated in tropical realms. So I had an unoccupied corner right of the notch, opposite the tomato corner. What goes well with tomatoes and peppers? If you are a fan of, or love someone who is a fan of Italian cuisine...
Eggplant! I chose the Ichiban variety for its compact size and earlier fruiting. Good stuff.
A more gaping space than that was the area to the very top of the circle, outside the pepper rings. Now I'm a fan of summer pleasures so for me, the choice was a no-brainer:
Watermelon.
Remember those cinder block voids? These took some thought.
I was thinking strawberries, but here in CenTX those are more of a fall/winter planting. What's something that should work, and leave the soil in better shape than it found it?
Pole beans... lovely legumes with their nitrogen-fixing properties, should be able to 'mind the shop' until the second growing season.
Tomato, coming up next to one of the chili plants
What's this- another mystery! This one is coming up next to the newly-planted watermelon.
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