Garden is moved!

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Got most of the garden in and planted. At lease enough that I don't have to worry about them wilting from no water.
The top right one will be for the carrot transplants. Need to find another wood board for the left side, then I'll add some topsoil and rabbit pellets and then stick in the carrots.
Somehow have to get rid of grass, make some shallow trenches and plant the corn seeds.
Been working mainly right before sunset, way too hot to do anything from 7am to 8pm. It's nuts!

 

[ducks4you]

If you have a Lowe's you can measure what you want and pay (I think) 25 cents a cut. I need to get some raised beds wood and will pay them to cut the pieces for me.
I took all the old wood that was left from previous owners for my raised beds, too.
I don't know if you have access to horse stall soiled bedding but if you can get some free, it makes a very nice mulch for inbetween the beds. It takes at LEAST a few years to break down and it is easy to pull weeds out of it. Only problem is that it retains moisture so it's mushy after a rain.
Otherwise just keep up with mowing so it doesn't go to seed.

 

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I have a hand saw and a circular saw, no need to have Lowes do it.
Have horses, but use rabbit poop, it's much closer to the garden than the horses and sheep are. Plus, I've been shoving all the poop out of the barn and right under the roof line where decades of rain have washed away the ground over 2 and 3 feet! Been three years of moving it to these spots and they are half filled up.
I don't need the wood to last, we're fixing up the house and hoping to be done and able to move to a permanent place by 2020.

 

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Oh!! Forgot about the potatoes!!!
need to get more peat moss n wood....crud!

 

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Carrots didn't mind the move. All of them are growing better now that they're planted.

 

[baymule]

Looking good! Don't you just love it when your hard work shows beautiful results like this?

 

[thistlebloom]

Your garden looks super Secuono! Good job on the carrots, you're the first person I know that has transplanted them. Bold move!

 

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I had them in two kinds of pots, one is the plastic big pan of pots you have to pop out and the other were the biodegradable ones.
Both are doing fine, even though I kinda beat up two in the plastic cups by accident.
I even saw a baby carrot, the root, growing on one. It was right against the wall of the cup. Kinda neat. But weird to know these individual plants is exactly how many carrots I'll be pulling up.
Noticed a lot of wild looking carrots, same leaves and everything, growing around the yard. Going to dig one up to see what it is.

Some of the vine plants have flowers on them, should I remove them and let the vine grow more or let them be??

I still need to get the corn and potatoes planted....

 

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Sort of planted corn, only have a shovel and hard dirt. So 1/4 of the way I quit and just spread seed in a row, topped with peat moss, soaked and fenced it off from the chickens. Soaked the corn in water for 24hrs first. Hopefully some grow.
Stole dirt from the potato bed, so potatoes are still not planted...

 

[lesa]

You are working hard- making me tired just reading this! I have never heard of transplanting carrots. Very interesting! Keep up the good work! Looking great!