The good weather over the last few days has given me the opportunity to clean up the garden and prepare the soil for next years bounty. It’s in bad shape. The garden has 6 ‘zones’ that are laid out as shown in the diagram. Each of the zones is 30′ X 40′. Zones 2,4, and 6 show the type of things I intended on planting. Not all were planned for watermelon, etc.., these areas are where beans and other row crop are planted as well.
Zones 1,3, and 5 are filled with 4′ X 12′ planting boxes. It’s these areas that need the most attention right now.
26 of the 28 boxes are stripped of the previous planting, the weed block, and the mulch.
Then I added about 5 cubic feet of 2 year old composted cow manure and a cup of 8-8-8 fertilizer to each box and worked it into the soil.
I’m 2/3rds finished on the clean up, once I get weed block on each bed and mulch them out again I can focus on what I’d really like to do in the garden: add ascetic elements such as stone half walls, stone borders, bird baths, and perhaps a small greenhouse.
So my weekend is filled with dirt and dung! I wouldn’t have it any other way.