Wow! I don’t know what’s more hectic; planting season or harvest season!

We started this season by doing some soil tests and then turning all the gardens. Then we spread the entire compost pile onto the main garden, let it dry a few days then turned it under.

The next day we started our raised beds for the secondary garden built from reclaimed wood. Last year this garden flooded badly and was difficult to weed. The new raised beds should alleviate these problems. Each bed is 24 feet long by 32 inches wide and 6 inches deep.

Then we started plotting out the main garden. This year our goal was wider aisles to make work easier.  That caused us to lose a row of planting, but we will make up for it with our new raised beds.

Next we needed to import soil for the raised beds. We used Green Valley Growers and bought 4 yards of beautiful top soil for $24/yd. Delivery was $20. Awesome deal.  The soil is very black, lite and crumbly. It is part soil part mushroom compost.

We still had to finish the beds!

Carolyn planted 141 tomato plants this weekend and I put in over 300 onion plants!! Still only about half way…..