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The Rhodos may be dead. Usually by now they are back to life. Gees. North Facing side really took a hit.
Cold Hardy Holly Trees burnt. They should recover but last year took till July. Wonder about this year. Notice at the bottom it's still dark green. (long duration snowpack)
I lost a lot of landscape due to cold, snow and wildlife this year.
April 13, 2015, Potatoes went in this past weekend... today the Onions.
4 rows. 25 Onion sets in each. From Left to Right. Sweet, White, Yellow. Red.
Close-up of the Yellows. I didn't go deep because the soil around here sucks even though I tilled down 8 inches, the soil gets so compact past 4 inches. UGH!
I been amending it for 5 years. But I will build hills over them.
A semi test. I threw Organic compost on some of them to see if they grow better than the regular soil. Since the regular soil is clay and cement like, I wonder if the compost will keep it loose for the bulb to expand bigger in size.
Welcome to New England Soil. Trying to till the garden and you can see not only how compact the soil gets but how many friggin rocks I pull up each year.
Mind you this is the "edge" of the bed and I may not have tilled this area enough times yet but still.. Without amendments & compost the soil here is not good and looks depleted as well.
And no... I can't even go deeper then that.. I need a machine.
So it's time to sift.
4 Shovel Fulls...
Ends up with this many rocks.
I'm fine with the Pebbles, but when most of soil is just that, you know that cant be good. Each time you push a shovel down, you hit a rock. And after it rains and drys the soil looks like cement.
That soil underneath is sooooo awesome! Roots and Bulbs would thrive in that.
Cambium, did you have a layer of frost heave? You should've considering the cold winter. How deep did it get?
Amazingly, a long deep snowpack kept the soil moist. I thought was so frozen at one point but when I checked it was just a couple inches down. Looks like dry cold winters is what freezes the ground more. And probably why I have a TON of bugs flying around. They survived under the snow pack.
Went to a local Horse Farm in Stamford, CT for one thing...
Yup... Manure. lol
Some lady was there so I was waiting for her to get her share.
So walked around a bit while I waited. Saw some Horse's. :-)
Something about Red Barns I love. (Looks Better in Winter though)
Horse in background was eating. The other was going for a walk. Just came out of the Stables.
Red Maples are starting to show their buds.
Finally, my turn. That's one big pile of manure!
Pile in front is aged and ready to use or put in compost (which I do then use for Veggie garden & shrubs)
Pile in back is too fresh to use. Will burn and kill plants.
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