Garden is ready!

[Duh_Vinci]

Well, almost

Spent entire day prepping the beds for this year's use (since didn't get to do much in the fall)

All the beds cleaned up completely, amended today with 3 different ingredients, trying to introduce wide variety of micro organisms into the garden:

2 pickup loads of well aged black Angus manure mixed with fertile soil (friend's farm)
1 pickup load of local organic compost
1 pickup load of mushroom compost

Perfect timing too, beautiful, warm 60F overcast, rain all day tomorrow, so all the amendments will start incorporating itself. Tired, but excited for the new season! In the first days of April will add Tomato Tone, so it will break down nicely in time for late April planting. My second year of no tilling existing spots, just amendments, worked really well last year, hoping for even better year this time!

Life is good!!!

Happy gardening all!

Regards,
D

[starwood]

Wow, I wish I were that far along. It's snowing here. Again

Congratulations on your progress.

[DoubleDogFarm]

D,

How big is your garden? How thick of a layer of all three are you applying? Do you rake it in or heave with a broad fork.

If you have answered some of these question in a different post, point me the way.

Any pictures.

Eric

[quiltbea]

Lucky you.
I still have over a foot of snow over my beds here in Maine.
I'm longing for that to melt so I can warm up my beds with clear plastic and get my A-frame ready again.
Enjoy.

[Duh_Vinci]

We definitely "dodged" the massive snow falls this year. And looks line in for an early spring!

Eric, my garden is not big, and area something like 25x50, all raised beds:

Four rows of 2x20 beds, four 4x4 beds, three 4x10 beds and couple of 2x8 beds. I've also added another raise bed against the back of the garage in the fall of 2009, it's 3x25.

Those 3 pickup trucks were enough to layer about 1" of each into each bed. I just fluff it up with a small garden fork, add some Tomato Tone (works on everything in the garden), and let is sit for 3 weeks prior to planting.

I'll take some pictures this week. Backyard is a little messy, building a shed back there... Since the metal shed I had originally collapsed last January after overnight dump of 36" of snow

This is from last or year before:

[img]https://drphotography.smugmug.com/photos/626177009_wkdX6-L.jpg[/img]

Regards,
D

[DoubleDogFarm]

Wow! Nice picture, an edible jungle.

Eric

[alaskagold]

Wow DV, very nice. Are those Lime trees?

[Duh_Vinci]

Eric,

Jungle it is, "organized", but jungle indeed! It does take a little planning in the spring, but dense planting pays off at the end.

Alaska,

Lime trees don't survive our winters. This is one of the raised beds (2x8). Middle (raised part) Bull's Heart Pink tomatoes, to each side, 3 varieties of peppers, the rest is herbs (early in the season usually radishes and extra early varieties of lettuce), then main crop takes over as you see it.

Regards,
D

[applestar]

Ahhh. Can't wait!