Yeah I decided to put the peppers back there since spacing on those is 14-18” as compared to all the maters being 24” and maters being vines. Checked my companion planting literature and didn’t see any issue with pepper+peas+lettuce. Pepper plants are still tiny and peas/lettuce will be done in a month.
https://www.ruralsprout.com/incompatible-companion-plants/
16. Peppers
Pretty cool site. Same one that has the weed teas.
Got weeding done, several peppers and two maters in. Gotta put 4-5 more mater plants in and two pair of two types of marigolds. Got some chard that are pretty tiny but I think they can go in. I’ll just need to mark them, maybe with collars.
Pulled three ticks off of me already. Time to treat the perimeter with Sevin granules and/or permethrin spray. Perimeter is mostly gravel driveway plus my walking path to the shop. Does the trick and none goes near food plants.
I can start clipping salads any time now. Got 2-3 leaf lettuces, komatsuna, two kinds of mustard and collards. Could do some cooked greens soon too. Brocolli and cabbage looking good. Kohlrabi’s coming along nicely. Never had it before but I don’t think I’ve ever found a veggie I don’t like. I’m also trying to expand my autist son’s palate. He loves sci-fi so I’ll jokingly tell him it’s alien food.
He ate some shrimp the other day. He’d had the tiny breaded ones before but not cocktail type shrimp. Didn’t have any cocktail sauce so I sauteed them in butter but he ended up dipping in bbq sauce so I guess I’ll get or make cocktail sauce next time and steam them. Bought some beef liver. Better start that early enough in the day to where he can escape the cooking smell. I don’t like the cooking smell but love liver and onions.
They did a slide to:
https://www.ruralsprout.com/eat-carrot-tops/
I never thought about cooking carrot tops before.