My extremely fantastic husband spent most of today roto-tilling the turf into the new veggie garden. Isn’t it beautiful?
It’s still pretty clayey – but better than it was before. We’re still trying to find a cheap source for a pretty huge amount of compost to till into this weekend.
But at least I can maybe put some onion starts in on Sunday. Yay!
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I know you told us before how big your garden would be, but I just now made the connection: Your veggie bed is larger than our whole lot.
I’m pretty sure our line-to-line is 30×50.
Wow! That plot really looks great! What is even more exciting is seeing it as an empty slate, just waiting for tiny seeds and transplants to grow in it’s deep rish soil. GIves me goosebumps just thinking about it!
Wish you lived closer as I’ve got a lot of llama poo that you could have. It’s fantastic stuff, I’ve been told, for gardens and can be placed right in the garden without being composted.
Can’t wait to read more about the next phase of your new garden plot.
Lovely! What you need is (are?) a few goats (oh, and the horse – I wish to live vicariously) to contribute to soil amending. All our goat bedding goes right on the garden. It’s like llama or sheep poo.
I am quite jealous of the flatness of your land.
Anita – I know! I realized yesterday that it’s 700 square feet bigger than our last house. Crazy.
Twinville – really? I can put llama poo straight on? There’s a farm down the way, maybe I’ll stop in and ask if they’ve got some to spare.
Maggie – the biggest reason our search took so long was that around here it’s almost impossible to find acreage that’s flat, dry and cleared. You can usually find one, but not all 3. Luckily for us this one had it all at a reasonable price.
That’s the most beautiful sight I think I’ve seen in a long time. I’m getting a little misty-eyed
. My raised beds are still under snow. I’m excited, though, as we’ve seen robins on the lawn and geese in the saltmarsh. Spring is here … she’s just taking her time with melting the snow.
Yay. What a fun day. RE: clay soil: you’ll never have enough good stuff to add to it
so you might as well buck up. It’s why I make surreptitious raids with the Volvo wagon to the city to get my fix of bagged leaves!! Anyway, it’ll make that horse a lot more attractive to you…the idea that all that bedding and all that poo would be destined to your garden…
WOW – awesome! We have clay soil here, too. We brought in a truckload of mushroom compost, and it worked splendidly. A word of caution re: manure (just saw the comments above)…. I don’t know about llama poo, but I know most manure needs time to settle. If you put it straight into the garden, you might want to dig it in and then wait a few weeks before planting.
Anyway, congratulations – I’m so excited for you!!!! LOL, now I’m watching your garden, jealous that you have one and know where you’re planting this year… sigh.
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