Painful End of the Year Garden Accounting
Here’s what this year’s garden cost:
seeds - $14.10
plants - $28.64
Serenade - $7.99 (for powdery mildew)
Liquid Fence - $15.99
Liquid Fence - $16.49 (price went up)
plastic tie tape - $3.99
diatomaceous earth - $6.99
clover cover crop - $4.79
metal stakes - $47.04
spading fork - $24.99
compost/sand - $111.95
peat moss - $31.96
rototilling - $60.00
TOTAL –> $374.95 Ouch!
I had no idea we spent this much. I have no tally of produce harvested to offset this. The stakes and fork are reusable although we may buy rebar to use as sturdier stakes. We won’t have the giant soil amendment costs next year either. The clover is supposed to be a green manure that we can work into the soil a few weeks before spring planting instead of compost. I saved many seeds from last year as you can see.
Here’s a photo of the inside of our one santa claus melon.
In the store these melons are white inside. I wondered why it had cantelope-like markings on the round end. Santa Claus melons are supposed to be football shaped. Apparently cross-pollination with our cantelopes happened. So much for my plan to grow a variety of melons side by side.
Here’s a view out the window one day when crows were re-enacting a scene from The Birds.
They were like this in every tree in everyone’s yard.
A closing shot of Jack indulging in his shoe fetish:
