{"id":5985,"date":"2018-10-08T21:13:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T13:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thirdlifeindulan.com\/?p=5985"},"modified":"2018-10-09T08:57:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T00:57:35","slug":"5985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dulanretreat.com\/?p=5985","title":{"rendered":"Getting ready for autumn planting season"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a hectic spring and summer this year, I finally have some time to tend to our edible garden, getting it ready for the autumn planting season. There are four raised planters in the garden.<\/p>\n

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Naked House Edible Garden with four raised planters.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Planter 1 (left) green leafy vegetables like lettuce, arugula, coriander and cabbage. Planter 2 (right) are the climbers like tomatoes, beans and cucumber.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I got some help this morning making the trellis for the tomatoes. A bunch of bamboo sticks cost NT100. We use a total of two bunches, including the old ones from last year.<\/p>\n

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Building a trellis is not as difficult as I imagined. The trick is to soften the soil by watering it first before drilling the holes for the bamboo poles.
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Done, in less than one hour. Had I done it by myself, given my inexperience, would probably take half a day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Papa Liu has a green thumb and he brought spring onions (scallions) from his own garden.<\/p>\n

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Spring onions love the sun but not when they have just been transplanted. They need to be shaded.<\/p>\n

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Papa Liu came up with this shading system using material we have in the garden. \u00a0It is easy, adjustable and does the job!<\/p>\n

The arugula and cabbage transplanted yesterday were wilting in the hot direct sun so we built another shading system for Planter 1.<\/p>\n

Planter 2. These tomatoes were planted on September 25 and it’s been two weeks. They are growing though not as fast as I expected. <\/p>\n

I soaked these beans for 24 hours before planting them. They are beans, snow peas and snake beans (our own crop from earlier this year).<\/p>\n

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Planter 3 are okra, eggplant, broccoli and broccolini.<\/p>\n

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