Apr. 15, 2008
RI Gardening 2
Today was beautiful. It is our school dept.'s vacation week. I wasn't going to take it off, but my oldest was invited to a friend's house (homeschooler) and so I decided to go easy on the other kids. We read this morning, but I didn't pursue any of their other assignments.
I spent the whole afternoon turning over the garden. My plot is about 25' x 25'. Fortunately, the soil was relatively loose, probably from chickens poking around in there on occasion. One son pitched in for all of about two shovel turns. That's okay, I have been looking for opportunities to get some more exercise anyway!
I worked all of the chicken manure and the fall/winter compost pile into the soil. I keep my compost pile in one place in the garden all season. I don't turn it, except on rare occasions. I work it into the soil in the spring and start the pile in a different location in the garden.
I did get some vermicomposting worms in the fall....but I killed them. Somehow the top was left off of their bucket and it filled with water.  I am so sorry wormies. I hope to try again. I read somewhere that you can just build a wooden box with open top and bottom and they will stay in it. The only problem is the chickens may eat them.
I turned everything over except for one small area where I have planted asparagus. No sign of any thing there yet.
I'll keep you posted. |
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