Cancel The Ark: Maybe Just A Dinghy

So the rain came down and down and down.  Everything drank it up – including my beds and my pathways.  It really seemed like extra rainy rain.

Garden seemed to enjoy it.  Some soil got washed off of my beds.  The trouble is that my beds are raised a few inches, but I don’t have them framed.  Once  the beds tighten up with more moisture and plant roots it should be fine.  Next year, if this layout works for me, I’ll frame the beds.  Probably.  If I’m not too fat and lazy.

Quick stroll out in the garden just now and the peas are coming up nicely.  Some chard just in front of them.  And a cat.  Sniffing around the peas to probably pee.  Shooed her away. 

Lettuce transplants look great and I tasted a leaf from one of them.  Very nice.

There is a frost warning for tonight.  Uh oh!  Looks like somebody jumped the gun!  We’ll see.  I think we’ll be okay.

So, cancel the ark.  Send a dinghy because it’s pretty much supposed to rain after tomorrow and never stop.

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Soil Is A Bit Yucky

Yucky as in not quite soily enough. 

Last year’s section of the garden enjoyed a nice thorough filling of organic compost from a bag.  Veggies did nicely last year, rows of soil were compact and rich and not very sandy, not too clayish.  This year, I tilled out a whole new piece and it had the standard lawn kind of soil which is a bit clayish, but not too bad.  Both sections got all tilled in together.  I thought I could just get a way with adding in my own compost which was mostly leaves.  Built the rows last weekend, built some bean teepees and a pea trellis.  Planted some peas and put in some lettuces from starts and from seed.

Noticed while I was planting that the soil was a bit dry and crumbly.  Didn’t worry too much, but now I am.  I think I need to add in a whole bunch more of rich compost and soil.  Not sure what will happen to the stuff I’ve already planted, but I really don’t think I’ll have too much success with the state of the soil right now.  Time to fix it!

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