Couple Rows Veggie Garden Ready (manure, Ferns, tomatoes, veggies)

[oregonwoodsmoke]

Now, just waiting on the weather.

Project for this week was to prepare the soil in the "corn" patch, and to ready the raised beds.

The raised beds just involved weed removal.

The area where the corn will go was:

Turn soil and removed all rocks. Fluff soil. Spread bone meal, wood ash, Epsom salts, and a very small sprinkling of time release 12-12-12 with trace mineral. Top with 3 inches of well composted horse manure. Turn it all under, mix, fluff, rake smooth. (This is a new garden)

It's still cold but I will plant some snow peas and some cabbage in the new area. Both will tolerate some freezing. If they don't make it, they don't. But if they do make it, I have fresh veggies sooner. Corn seed doesn't go in until the end of June. Corn is perfectly happy to share space with snow peas and cabbage.

The wood ash is for areas where I plant tomatoes, and I often put a few tomatoes at the edge of the corn patch.

The raised beds don't need any feeding. Soil was well prepared when the beds were put in. 50% local soil, which is excellent, and 50% composted manure. Epsom salts, bone meal, and ash were added all throughout. Stuff grows like crazy in those beds.

Asparagus beds were weeded and the asparagus ferns cut off. Those beds got hardware cloth at the bass and also dolomite besides the regular additions, to adjust the pH to the requirements of asparagus.

Dead strawberry leaves were trimmed off. Nothing else done to raised strawberry beds.

All this soil turning is at my son's garden. I do no-till myself, but add the same sorts of things and just turn right where I am planting. I do a lot of top dressing and it all seems to work its way in just fine.

[PinkFlowerGarden]

I am jealous. It is still winter here.

[uncleharley]

It's still a bit early in S D, but I am going to begin the soil prep next week.

uh

[kinkytoes]

I looked at my new garden bed today...the one with the spinach...and some critter had taken a cr@p in it.

[uncleharley]

Till it in. It's good fertilizer.

uh

[kinkytoes]

LOL it looked a little too fresh. I went out earlier and took it out. I'm hoping the spinach and kale I planted will rear their little heads in the next couple of weeks.