Apr. 19, 2008
RI Gardening 3 and Apple Orchard
Today I needed to clean up the house because we had some high school and college students coming over to watch a movie, but I did spend some time raking the garden. The chicken manure was a little "chunky" in places (glued together with wood shavings) so I raked all of that into the compost pile which will hopefully break it down more. I am sure that people don't want to read about these minor details, but I don't want people to think it is all easy. A few hours out in the garden and it's all ready for planting....NOT! I will probably poke around out there every few days to see if there are any weeds trying to invade.
I noticed a few little asparagus shoots coming up! Not as many as I expected. I am afraid I may have lost a few plants or maybe they are just delayed. I did buy another package of asparagus yesterday though. Maybe I will get those in tomorrow. The thing with asparagus is that you can't harvest it for a year. It is a perennial crop and (in theory) should come up year after year, sort of like ferns.
I did sit down and map out the layout of the garden. I have one corner that has a post that is a fir tree! My husband decided to let it live. The soil there is very acidic (I imagine) and it is lighter in color then the rest of the garden. I am thinking that I will put beans there in order to introduce nitrogen there. I need to do some research to see what kinds of veggies like acid. Maybe that should be the compost pile location this season....we'll see. I will probably rearrange my map several times before planting.
I tried to get my son to dig the holes for his trees today, but he didn't. The sod is broken around two trees but that is as far as he got. The trees may arrive on Monday so he will have to dig them before then!
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