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By: De_Composed in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (0)
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I've been gardening. These four 25' furrows took twelve hours to make, fertilize and plant - with most of that time spent removing rocks.

You might remember that one of the bonuses of the land was that it had nice, loamy soil with few rocks. Unfortunately, my excavator scraped much of that off and left big piles of loam around my now, relatively loam-free field. I'm exaggerating a little since there are parts of the field he didn't touch (as evidenced in the distance where bushes are thriving), but they aren't the parts where I'm gardening.

You can see a line of the smaller loam-piles in this first photo. Below, there's a far larger loam-pile - it's much taller than I am. The hole in it is where I've been mining loam to improve the dirt in the garden. To give you an idea of the scale, the brown pile before the big loam-pile is most of a truckload of horse manure.

I've planted potatoes and onions, both of which are new to me, in the four furrows. Four furrows makes for a small potato/onion patch compared to what I want to have in future years, but I've only got so much energy for de-rocking a potato patch. There are a lot of other vegetables I want to plant this year.

Elsewhere, I've already planted chives, radishes, lettuce, spinach and raspberries.

Fifty plum saplings arrived in the mail yesterday. Today I sold twenty of them to my builder which leaves me with thirty. That's more than enough. I like plums, but thirty trees is an orchard. The idea is to have plums to barter with one day. I'll need to plant them in the next 3-4 days. It wouldn't do to let them dry out. The good news is that the back field where I'm planting the saplings DOES have its loam. They'll be relatively easy to plant. I'll donate thirty of my heavy 5' tomato cages to the cause: Protecting the saplings from deer. They otherwise wouldn't stand a chance.

The upended box you see is a chicken coop I picked up last fall. I don't know when I'll get around to rebuilding it. Maybe not this year. I seem to have my hands full. Today (Saturday) I'll be on the road, picking up wins from four auctions. Most of the items are small... everything should fit in my wife's SUV.




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