Weekend Warriors!

Weekend Warriors! We got the garden area all ready this past weekend. We decided to leave the boarders around the raised bed. Our septic tank clean out is under there ...so underneath is a rather large cement pad. If we take the boarder out there really would be no growing things there as the dirt level would get too shallow. So we opted to till a space right next to it for deeper planting items and do lettuce and radishes (and probably some herbs) in the raised part. I covered everything over with a deep layer of hay for mulch a la Ruth Stout. It looks rather funny right now...but we are due some rain the next few days and that will flatten it all out. We tilled the new area just enough to turn the sod over and in the fall when we shut down the garden we will deep mulch again...this mulching should decompose through the winter keeping us from having to till again and amend the soil to boot! I'm just going to have to try this method a season or two to see how well it works...I will post thoughts as I move along....the flops and the successes! Planting here in Ohio is in about three weeks....so this should give everything time to settle in. It's really fun to be able to put in a small garden this year.....the past two years we did not and I have really missed it! I always keep some sort of flowers in the front....but there's just something about growing your own vegetables

Here's my DH tilling....I did some to but he enjoyed it more than I did! I thanked him VERY much for helping me and he said he can't wait to eat some good cooking!













Here's everything tilled up waiting for it's mulch covering. You are supposed to use 6 to 8 inches of hay. We guessed 4 bales. I'm sure there is some formula for figuring inches per square foot out there, but I don't know it.













By the time I spread it....it only took 2 bales...but that's ok because I will just store the other two by the shed for during the growing season as the mulch needs added to or to help feed the rabbits!












Our total space ended up at 12 feet by 16 feet and here is our final plan. Tomatoes, green peppers, about 4 different lettuce varieties, radishes and whatever herbs I want this time out. We are doing cucumbers too but they will not be in this bed. They will get their own special area beside the rabbit hutches to grow. We are making a fence trellis for them to grow up on instead of ground growing. That's next weekends project to prep for planting....for another post! Thank you for stopping by to enjoy my garden adventures!!! Remember to be thankful for even the smallest of blessings each and every day!!!