Last week I spent some time planning the garden and drew up a quick sketch on the computer. Once we started actually working the soil things shifted a bit, but this is a good approximation of how everything will look.
We began by turning the soil for each of the beds we planned to plant that day.
Then we added a layer of rich compost.
We ended up making two plots of potatoes and consolidating the carrots into one plot. Then the fun part: planting!
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| Yukon Gold seed potatoes. |
We also made a few raised beds for the carrots, lettuce, and chard. Here are the ones for the chard and lettuce. We've started with just a half plot of each and I'll be planting successively so that we don't have too much produce at once.
At home I made some tags and went to place them today. It rained yesterday, so everything got a nice soak.
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| Lettuce |
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| Swiss Chard |
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| Baby Carrots |
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| Big Carrots |
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| Fingerling Potatoes |
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| Yukon Gold Potatoes |
Happy first day of May!
Wow, your plot is way bigger than I would have expected! You're not in urban CA anymore! I wish you many days of fun digging in the dirt, and delicious harvest.
ReplyDelete:-D Thanks! I'm really excited for some plants to come up! Can't wait to see you in less than 2 weeks.
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