…but the slugs love it! They ate through most of my peas, and several other plantings. Added some egg shells to the surviving plants – see if they like THAT! Something was digging in my broccoli on the wicking bed…
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Author: APerkins
Day 22 – Indoors
Potted up a lot of potting soil and planted three types of tomato seeds: Early Girl, Lincoln and Oregon Spring. Out of thirty two plantings, I hope to be able to give a few away. Would have been better if…
Day 18 – Glue and Humidity
Planting the rest of the broccoli and trying to vlog it as well, the bottom of my broccoli seed packet came unglued, spilling it’s contents into the soil. Salvaged as much as I could (these were going into the banana…
Day 17 Slogging
The ground is extremely wet, the grass soaked my shoes within ten feet of the beds. Planting the rest of the broccoli into the lasagna bed and the hugelkultur bed, the killing mulch is like moving cold spinach aside, with…
Day 15 – Planting in the Rain
Slow going for planting. Rain will continue through the week. Staying off the planting areas is always a good idea, but it’s especially important when it’s raining. The reasons to avoid planting in the rain? compacts the soil seeds can…
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Day 16 – Slow Going
Planted more in the rain – actually in the mist. As I was moving soil from a very wet ground into banana boxes, I did not sift the dirt, but moved it shovel-full by shovel-full, to keep from mixing the…
Day 13 and Transplanting Stawberry hacks.
Cleanup day. Spent the 30 minutes cleaning up the wicking bed. Weeds pulled up easily, thanks to the good soil and getting to them early. With the impending rain, I also decided it was time to start moving the strawberries…
Day 12
Planted the potatoes! Have 31 starts in the garden, nine in the wicking bed, nine in the lasagna bed, nine in the hugelkultur bed, and four in the banana box bed. Why only four in the banana box bed? Ran…
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