What Did You Do In The Garden?

[digitS']

Dismantled the hoop house.

This may be the earliest that I have done this in the seasonal structure's 25 year history. There appears to be absolutely no need to keep it in place either in recent temperature history or official forecasts. Unharvested plants inside are in robust growth and many will need to be turned under. Hopefully, I can find adequate space in the bed that wasn't amended last fall.

Some of the compost from the grass sod with the expansion of the outdoor garden will also need to find a home. It's wonderful to have all of this material, as it was in 2024, but our urban-size lot doesn't have space for adequate sized compost bins to provide the time for more complete composting and storage. Not, that is, with the desire to have as large of an annual vegetable garden and lawn space as possible .

 

[digitS']

Two hours of rather tiring mostly shovel work made up my 30 minutes of cardio exercise, today.

A wheelbarrow load of pulled Asian greens and other plants were pulled from the hoop house beds. There was an area in one bed where they could be buried but I wanted the grass sod moved out of the bins first and the green veggies could go in the bins. Four buckets of kitchen trimmings were also waiting to be composted.

The best compost was mounded up around the potatoes, which have made a good start. The problem was that, after 2 full months of being in the bins, it was almost necessary to screen the material to separate out grass roots still living. I did a lot of  banging the sod against the shovel. For hilling the spuds, I was selective. For burying in the garden bed, I was less so. Hopefully, there won't be any Kentucky Bluegrass growing in either location . Anyway, the first round of spent garden veggies has been cleared and the kitchen compost buckets are empty .

 

[Anniekay]

Today it was very stormy so, while it was raining I put my new composter together. It's the Miracle grow model, 18 cubic "something" on each side. (I'm not good on measurements) and I am going to put it in an empty spot in my raised bed garden for convenience. I used to use a large garbage can for composting but turning it isn't easy . I also do the trench method for composting but only for burrying legumes for the nitrogen. This eliminates my having to do the turning myself. Then I picked some eggplants and made a big batch of eggplant parmesan. I intend to split it up into portions and freeze most of it.