so we added a new garden plot to our homestead this year this plot here is
where we'll be planning our fall garden and then we'll probably plant corn here
next spring so this plot was just grass before we tilled it up we tilled it up
back in the summer and then we we kept tilling it about once a week for about a
month just to break up all that grass and debris and stuff and then from there
on out we just will hold it once a week just to keep the weeds down until we're
ready to plant so today we're going to be planting five different things in
this little plot here this plot is a 20 foot wide by about 35 foot long we're
gonna be planting some green magic broccoli which is a variety of broccoli
that's really heat tolerant does really well here in the south we can get it in
a little earlier in the year then we would other varieties we're also
planning some cauliflower a variety called Denali and it's also pretty heat
tolerant then we're planning some Toscano kale some people call it lacinato
kale Toscano kale and then we're planting some rainbow chard and then
we're also planning some pak choi or bok choy we're gonna plant one row of each
but we've got enough plants for the Pak Choi would probably plant a double row
of it so we started out this morning we took our wheel hoe and we just
cultivated the area one last time just to get rid of any small weeds that might
be there then we laid off our rows we laid off our rows three feet apart so
five rows three feet apart and then we were getting ready to lay our drip tape
so the first thing we did was take our plow set and we made a furrow where our
rows are going to go and then we laid our drip tape in that furrow so once we
had our drip tape laid then it was time to hook up the drip irrigation system
this area is convenient for us on the homestead because it's right beside our
compost pile and it's also really close to the well so we don't have to run
very far to use this drip irrigation system so we had our pressure regulator
and our filter and then we set up our mainline tubing we laid it out I like to
lay a brick on each in because it helps remove some of the memory of that
mainline tubing has from being called up in its packaging once we had the
mainline tubing laid out then we hooked up the individual drip lines we let the
drip run to kind of flush out the system and then we plug up all the ends and
then let the drip system run for a while to let the water start seeping up out of
the soil to let us know where the emitters are because we'll plant right
on top of those emitters so the emitters are on a 1 foot spacing which is
convenient because that's what we'll be planning on today so we will basically
put a plant on top of each emitter and we'll plant these five rows