My workout for the week is done. With the Meditation room finished I didn’t know what to do with myself. It was cold and windy outside. A good day to work outside then. I sweat like crazy, so cold days are very good.
The two ground beds (12 X 5 and 12 X 4)) haven’t been touched since the first good freeze last year. Though one of the has big clumps of parsley that grew through the winter. I decided to use my mom’s technique for preparing a garden. Just flip the dirt over. Both beds are 1-2″ higher that ground level from having been flipped last year. I used a deep narrow shovel this year to make them even higher. They also got lengthened towards the fence and I used the old, shallow, wide shovel, because the clay is so dense.
The parsley is still growing, though I dug around the roots. In a month or so it will bolt. Yay, for the parsley. Didn’t know it was cold season, over-winter crop.
I found some surprises in the dirt. Potatoes from last year over wintered just fine and except for the shovel marks are a good size to make again this year. Sweet potatoes are a different story. They can’t survive the freezing we get here. There were lots and lots of big fat earth worms in some parts.
Before digging I added green sand, Yum Yum, crushed egg shells, expanded shale, and vermiculite. That should do it for fertilizing. Flipping the soil usually means you need to wait a month for it to decompose and be really good. Now, I just have to figure what is getting planted where.