Himself went fishing yesterday in the warm sunny weather, and told me that he would be available today to till the garden....
Beggars can't be choosers.
I did get some seeds planted in the nursery bed, and I did get some work done on the fence. I don't want to finish the fence until I get the bed tilled so that Himself can have room to turn around with the tiller.
Donna has been so kind as to reassure me that 'late' is better than never, and I can spend this untilled time adding to the soil to enrich it more.
I have have bag of horse poo from last year that I added water to under the instruction of my Grandfather who calls it 'Stinky Juice'. I found it yesterday behind a bush where I had tucked it last year to fester, and promtly forgot about.
This should be a wonderful addition to the soil! I also emptied all of my pots from last years annuals into the garden soil.
Donna, has stated that she uses straw, which adds loft to the dirt. I am going to ask my equestrian friends if I can come clean the stables one day and get some.
In the mean time I will relax and know that the garden will be tilled in good time, and I will find something else to obsess about.
3 comments:
Steph, I use clean baled straw as mulch. If you get it from the stables be sure to till it in AFTER the growing season so it can rot over the winter. You might end up with more weeds than you want otherwise.
Update on the garden. My grandson and I pulled our first head of red leaf lettuce last night. He is all of 8 years old. He promptly brought the lettuce to the kitchen and washed it thorougly. He also made a fabulous salad for us for dinner. Complete with bread and butter pickles, pickled beets, ham, turkey and anything else he could find in the refrigerator that he thought would be good in salad. It was delicious.
We picked our first basket of peas this morning. We got more sugar ann snap peas than we did of the Laxton. The laxtons are on the vines but not yet filled out.
Hope you got your plot tilled up and planted. Nothing like the peace and serenity that comes from working the earth.
Gorgeous photo.
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