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Been too long since a new post, too busy with life. Thats ok, though. The garden is ramping up as things have dried out a bit. The outdoor beds are coming online this month, and the tomatoes are just getting their first tiny blossoms. Below are the outdoor beds after spreading compost and doing a shallow till. After they were tarped off for stale seed bedding. Hopefully I won’t have the same weed issues with this plot.
On the left along the tunnel there is a big wet area with a very thick blob of clay soil. Where the beds are its a little sandier. Its continously a mudhole. Later in the summer I’ll have a proper ditch dug along it.
In the tunnel, tomatoes and drip irrigation went in. Its a mess in parts. In retrospect, about twice as much compost was needed. Everything will be ok, though.
I have lettuce and carrots that need to come out. Tomorrow I will put some out in a small cooler/stand in the front yard and see what happens. Even got a small sign made and everything. Slow and steady wins the race, for sure.
And finally, the winter mix I put along the road is full of nice vetch flowers and looks really lush at the moment.
The compost I have is full of weeds, look at this!
Its really cramping my style, but oh well. At least I know for the next beds. Either this compost wasn’t properly heated up or I have misunderstood what the supplier was selling. Oh well, a problem I can fix with time.
After many hours of shovelling compost, the initial bed layout is done and 2nd tunnel is what I call incubating. Hopefully, it will warm up this week to wake up all the weed seeds in the compost. There appear to be an infinite amount of them so we’ll see how well that goes. And we’ve dug a small ditch along the uphill side to drain water away better. Even now there is some standing water inside the tunnel. Crazy to me how the soil refuses to drain anywhere ever. Below you can see the beds all raked out. They need a bit more compost. I had to underload the carts to make it easier to push them through the muck.
And I got the first sprinklers into the first tunnel, so I can stop watering by hand so much. A portion of the cabbages and a bed of lettuce got frozen out a couple weeks back, but everything else is growing well. The sprinklers make things very foggy.
And finally, don’t leave your expensive monitoring thermometer in range of the sprinklers. It recovered after the sensor dried off.
With the spring melt here, and suddenly warm weather. Transplants have started going out. Tomatoes are also starting indoors for May planting. And the 2nd caterpillar tunnel is mostly up. Only the metal perlin remains then the plastic.
Everything is 2-3 weeks behind, mostly due to lack of space from the 2nd tunnel. Additional compost is here for the beds, but even once the plastic is up it will take A LOT of trips to unload all the compost for the beds. It took me several weeks to finish the first one, mostly due to mud and weather. Going back and forth across the yard eventually created several mud pits from the weight of the garden trailer.
Updated pics below. The carrots are just barely starting to come up that were seeded in February. A major lesson this year is not to bother with anything beyond a transplant until March or it warms up. I could have seeded those carrots later and had the same result. I need to get a soil thermometer at some point.
