What do I want from gardening?
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What do I want from gardening? 2025-09-08-01
- Lettuce for salad
- As many cherry tomatoes as we can eat and share
- Marigolds, roses: Colour, play
- Radishes are fun too
- Perilla leaves
- Basil
- Mint
- Green onions, chives
- Lavender
- Bitter melon for W-
- Small cucumbers
- Strawberries
Overall:
- Things we use a little of at a time
- Things that are very tasty
Next step: Add more to soil to get more out of it:
- replace front garden with compost & radishes
- get the pots set up for lettuce
Things that get in the way:
- Heat
- Poor soil weeds > seeds
- Other priorities
- Waiting
First frost: ~ Oct 13
- get strawberries back in the ground
- another crop of lettuce & radishes
The weather's getting cooler. I probably have a couple of weeks more before the cherry tomatoes get too cold. A+ hasn't been interested in harvesting them lately, so I get to do the tomato-picking now. We have a little over a month until the usual first frost in Toronto. I moved the strawberries to pots during spring/summer so that I could keep them in a cage away from squirrels, but now it's time to put them in the ground. I'll see if I can still pick up some compost from the garden store so that I can amend the soil before I replant the strawberries. It's a good time for me to get some more lettuce and radishes going, too.