Enter the Trigram, part three
This was part two.
Yesterday I... well, hold on... on Wednesday, I turned over the soil in the beds that bracket the trigram.
I thought that the weather would be a bit shaky, but it remained clear throughout the afternoon. I went out around 3 p.m., dug for two and a half hours, stopped to eat, then dug for another hour and a half. I took the shovels and the wheelbarrow back inside, rushed back out with the cameras so that I could photograph a lunar halo above the house, and then I spread a few pounds of fertilizer over the beds. The blend that I use contains bone meal and dried blood, so I think that foraging animals will stay away from the garden before there's even anything in it that they might want to eat.
Yesterday, I planted onion bulbs and garlic gloves around the perimeter and across the center bed. From the midpoint of the side beds and around to the front (the side closest to the row cover), I broadcast a mix of poppy, flax, arugula, spinach, echinacea, calendula, nigella, chicory... and several other seeds that I can't recall. I'm hoping to see something like a vegetable prairie in the front section.
From the midpoint of the side beds and around to the back, I spread rye, barley and buckwheat seeds. I'm hoping that they'll grow enough to loosen the soil a bit before mid-May, when I will plant/transplant corn, beans, a couple of squash, tomatoes and some other produce.
I had considered waiting until Saturday (or even next Thursday) to plant the wildflowers and early vegetables, but again, the weather was much nicer than I expected. I'm looking forward to visiting another garden site later today, so it's good that all the work that I wanted to do at the house is finished. The next few days' cold and moisture will do their work on the seeds, and then I'll just check in on them at midweek.
Yesterday I... well, hold on... on Wednesday, I turned over the soil in the beds that bracket the trigram.
I thought that the weather would be a bit shaky, but it remained clear throughout the afternoon. I went out around 3 p.m., dug for two and a half hours, stopped to eat, then dug for another hour and a half. I took the shovels and the wheelbarrow back inside, rushed back out with the cameras so that I could photograph a lunar halo above the house, and then I spread a few pounds of fertilizer over the beds. The blend that I use contains bone meal and dried blood, so I think that foraging animals will stay away from the garden before there's even anything in it that they might want to eat.
Yesterday, I planted onion bulbs and garlic gloves around the perimeter and across the center bed. From the midpoint of the side beds and around to the front (the side closest to the row cover), I broadcast a mix of poppy, flax, arugula, spinach, echinacea, calendula, nigella, chicory... and several other seeds that I can't recall. I'm hoping to see something like a vegetable prairie in the front section.
From the midpoint of the side beds and around to the back, I spread rye, barley and buckwheat seeds. I'm hoping that they'll grow enough to loosen the soil a bit before mid-May, when I will plant/transplant corn, beans, a couple of squash, tomatoes and some other produce.
I had considered waiting until Saturday (or even next Thursday) to plant the wildflowers and early vegetables, but again, the weather was much nicer than I expected. I'm looking forward to visiting another garden site later today, so it's good that all the work that I wanted to do at the house is finished. The next few days' cold and moisture will do their work on the seeds, and then I'll just check in on them at midweek.
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