Wednesday, 13 May 2015

BRING ON THE COMPOST

I am PUMPED about the state of the garden right now. So much got done today!

Russ and I picked up 2 yards of composted pine mulch in his truck this afternoon so I could start amending the clay soil (and I had a Groupon so it was an excellent deal, $25 for $55 worth of mulch! Woo hoo!)

2 yards of composted pine mulch ready for the garden!
My mom came over to help me continue the weeding and digging and now, mixing in the soil amendments. I was also planning on using some composted horse manure but I'm not sure if that is going to be necessary after all. I haven't decided yet.

My mom was a superstar in the garden tonight - we both worked for nearly 4.5 hours and the soil is looking SO much better already. We dug out another huge trench but didn't have time to fill it in with cedar chips tonight, so that will be a job for another day. We then mixed in the compost until we both had broken wrists and sore backs and it was getting dark and we had to stop. Check out the beds with the compost compared to the ones without now (at the back of the garden). There's such a difference in soil texture already, not to mention the nice rich colour. Dark soil = good soil!

5 of 8 beds with awesome new soil!
Also notice how high the beds are now? I'm not at all worried about the low land and water sitting in the plot, which has apparently been a problem for this area in the past. So far the cedar wood chips have done an awesome job of absorbing excess rainwater and I'm expecting the raised beds to dry out more quickly than if I had just left them flat at ground level.

So guess what this means? Almost time to start planting!!!!




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