SprigOfTheLivingDead
Garden Addicted
The warmer weather is almost here to stay and like most of you I'm trying to get situated to hopefully have a successful year
Between my rows of soil I laid out horse manure last summer to suppress weeds and obviously give nutrition over time. Ober winter I spread chicken manure as well and then in early March put straw down over all that. I'm excited to get the corn and sunflowers (I like sunflowers and then I rip the plants out and throw them over the fence for my chickens in the fall) in. We're going to try growing cucumbers against the chicken run fence. We'll see if they survive
Then today I took the first steps in making my raised bed for strawberries. My plan is to use a few amur maple trunks I sunk in the ground as the corners. I'll Then run some lumber between them at the top and then cut a lot of 1" thick branches to put vertical as the wall. I hope it ends up looking half as good as the picture in my mind
And maybe some of these guys will provide my family with some yum yums this summer
Now I need to order up about 6-8 yards of soil. Need to calculate stuff first
Side note: my neighbor gave me a trailer he wasn't using anymore since he got a side-by-side. He said it was because I let him put his trees in my gravel bed, but I wasn't looking for anything in return. However, this was a glorious gift since on that same day a tire exploded in my other garden tractor trailer. Scared me a little. Sounded like a gunshot going off right next to me.
Between my rows of soil I laid out horse manure last summer to suppress weeds and obviously give nutrition over time. Ober winter I spread chicken manure as well and then in early March put straw down over all that. I'm excited to get the corn and sunflowers (I like sunflowers and then I rip the plants out and throw them over the fence for my chickens in the fall) in. We're going to try growing cucumbers against the chicken run fence. We'll see if they survive
Then today I took the first steps in making my raised bed for strawberries. My plan is to use a few amur maple trunks I sunk in the ground as the corners. I'll Then run some lumber between them at the top and then cut a lot of 1" thick branches to put vertical as the wall. I hope it ends up looking half as good as the picture in my mind
And maybe some of these guys will provide my family with some yum yums this summer
Now I need to order up about 6-8 yards of soil. Need to calculate stuff first
Side note: my neighbor gave me a trailer he wasn't using anymore since he got a side-by-side. He said it was because I let him put his trees in my gravel bed, but I wasn't looking for anything in return. However, this was a glorious gift since on that same day a tire exploded in my other garden tractor trailer. Scared me a little. Sounded like a gunshot going off right next to me.
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