(not really.)
Today is "Ready, Set, Go!" day for the Fall garden. I got up and put on my work clothes, and drove down to the corner of 6 and W. Little York and bought a Sunday Chronicle. (What ever happened to the Saturday Chronicle? If they sell the Sunday one on Saturday morning, when do they sell the Saturday one?)
If you're wondering about "garden + newspaper," here's the connection - I have the little strip behind the garden boxes where weeds like to grow. One Sunday Chronicle wadded up, plus one bag of pea gravel = weed control. Hopefully.
After that, I spent two hours with the claw tool, a bag of peat humus and a bag of cow compost re-mixing the Mel's Mix. All that effort, and it looks exactly the same as you remember it:
1 and 2: onion sets, once I get them from Conroe
3 and 4: vacant for now
5 and 6: one broccoli in each square
7 and 8: vacant for now
9 and 10: vacant for now, possibly salad mix rotation later
11 and 12: salad mix (1 little gem, 1 mignonette bronze, 1 tango and 1 radicchio in each square)
13 and 14: carrot rotation, vacant now
15: first square of carrots (planted today)
16: will be carrots, plant in one month
So there will be four squares of carrots, planted a month apart. They take three months to grow. So starting three months from now, I'll have a continuous supply of carrots.
There are also four squares set aside for salad mix.
What I learned in the Spring about broccoli is that it takes a huge plant to make one head of broccoli, so you can't put four broccoli in one square. It also makes big shady leaves. I left an easement of squares around the broccoli this time and just planted one in each square. We'll see how it goes. There aren't that many fall veggies I'm interested in, so I have squares to spare for the moment.