Our gardens are growing! We decided to move one of the boxes to a more sunny spot, so that meant we had to sacrifice some of the backyard. Since we were already doing that, we committed and built two more beds from a kit. Now we have FOUR 4X4 beds to grow whatever we want.
Next, we needed soil, so with the help of a friend and a barter arrangement, I got a load of compost dropped into the driveway. Smelled like chicken poop! (*probably because it is*). Antonio moved the poop and we added topsoil and peat moss. |
| Mixing soil is very labor instensive, but we had a lot of "help". |
After all the beds were full, I added some baby plants and watered them well before we called it a night.
Lettuces, cabbage, parsley and one cucumber.
Our salsa garden: Jalapenos, red peppers, early red peppers, cubanelle peppers, gold medal tomato and heritage tomatoes. And one blooming tomatillo for a salsa verde.... MMMmmmmmm. We also have two more slicing cucumber plants in this bed on the back side to train them to climb, hopefully.
We still have a LOT of space to go. Our first garden visitor has asked to be a "share cropper" and brought over two patio tomatoes which we added to the low end of the double bed. The high bed has 4 onion plants which I know very little about. Should be interesting to see those develop.
Next, to get MORE plants and pray for a good, gentle rain shower to fully saturate the beds and keep our veg hydrated! Then, on to the next project!
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