Gardening

Greenhouses are largely planted, and all of one garden is done. The other garden is set up with raised mounds for zucchini, and the winter squash/pumpkin mounds are also partly set up. I was moving compost with the tractor and found that the bottom two feet of the compost pile is still frozen solid! The uppermost layers were more recently active, but the stuff that has been done since last fall has been insulated from thawing by the upper layers. I will probably have to wait until Monday when I hope the rest will be thawed out. Even the tractor with my special compost attachment could not budge the ice.
 
The new little raised bed planters are put together ! Bobby had it done early this morning, and I had a whole garden cart of weeds scraps and trimmings that were ready to go in the bed. I took the cardboard box that it came in apart, laid that down (after weedeating the grass as close to the dirt as possible), so that should stop the grass and weeds from coming up through the bottom.
Bobby used my Mini-Mower and mowed part of the front yard and added two containers of grass clippingings into the top to muclh down with everything else, and then we put a bag of garden soil on top and I added some plant cuttings.

I ordered more bags of dirt to put over what is there, and next I will do more weeding and get ready to set up the other raised bed. By next year, they should have pretty well worked their way down to ground level, and i will take the metal containers and re-use them to start more plants elsewhere.

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Yvonne Smith said:
The new little raised bed planters are put together ! Bobby had it done early this morning, and I had a whole garden cart of weeds scraps and trimmings that were ready to go in the bed. I took the cardboard box that it came in apart, laid that down (after weedeating the grass as close to the dirt as possible), so that should stop the grass and weeds from coming up through the bottom.
Bobby used my Mini-Mower and mowed part of the front yard and added two containers of grass clippingings into the top to muclh down with everything else, and then we put a bag of garden soil on top and I added some plant cuttings.

I ordered more bags of dirt to put over what is there, and next I will do more weeding and get ready to set up the other raised bed. By next year, they should have pretty well worked their way down to ground level, and i will take the metal containers and re-use them to start more plants elsewhere.

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My challenged daughter was helping me and I had to explain the importance of not wasting dirt. I understand the confusion but I don't buy it. She used to just fling it around but now is one of the best tree planters I know. Put in two more stanley plums. Yum!
 
Mary Stetler said:
My challenged daughter was helping me and I had to explain the importance of not wasting dirt. I understand the confusion but I don't buy it. She used to just fling it around but now is one of the best tree planters I know. Put in two more stanley plums. Yum!
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If we had any good dirt, i would not buy it either; and this is the first place that I have ever had to do anything except shovel dirt to where I wanted it. We have hardpacked clay here, and it is either mud or cement , depending on whether we have rain or not. So, now that I am just doing container gardening, it makes sense to fill the container as full as possible with plants that will add mulch, and then put dirt and some kind of compost in with that, and add more as necessary.
I wish I still had a backyard llama because they make the very best manure for a garden ! (And they helpfully put it all in a nice pile somewhere so it is easy to move where I needed it.
 
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