More gardening goodness

[siercia]

*sigh* Luckily, we don't seem to have rabbits around here. I suspect the coyotes ate them all .

Spent more time digging and digging and digging today. Now, two of the zucchinis are in, and two of the brussel sprouts. I think I've got one more zucchini hill, and then a row of broccoli, and then I'm done (Well, except for the summer of water and weeding. Can't forget that. (Speaking of, anyone had any experience using a soaker hose with plants that want to be planting in hills? I've currently got the hose going around the base of the hills, and I fear that the plants may not get to the moisture). My back is aching, but it'll be worth it, if I get good stuff out of the ground this year.

It was somewhat heartening to see the difference in the soil for the part of the garden I worked last year, and the newly turned over soil for this year. I mean, clearly the rock count can't even be compared, but beyond that the siol seemed a little richer, and lest clay-ish on the worked once side. It gives me hope that I'll actually end up with a workable and productive patch of earth. I wish I knew more though. I'm so completely winging this, and being surprised by what I end up with. Anyone out there recommend any good books? I've got some birthday money to burn.

When I'm out there picking out the 30,000th rock from my 30 square feet of garden, I wonder to myself why I don't just go out, buy some 2 by 4s and make myself a raised bad filled with bought topsoil and go from there. And I'm not sure why not, except for the vague feeling like that would somehow be cheating - that refusing to take what I've been given and improve i would make what I'm doing out there less somehow. BUt, boy is my back paying for those crunchy granola rose colored glasses right now.

It is definitely neat watching all the insect life out there. I've distubed at least two large ant colonies, flung around a passel of worms, seen more grubs (YUCK) than I want to think about, and seen at least two neat spiders and a couple other assorted random bugs. Nifty, in a "one with everything" kind of way. I could watch any colonies scurry all day (or at least until they started scurrying onto me.

Maybe I'll try to get some pictures once all the little plants are in the ground so y'all can see it too, since I seem to have some folks gardening vicariously through me. This is devolving rapidly as I'm getting tired. Perhaps I should give it up for the night.

Comments

[biophile6.livejournal.com]

Over 20 years, my mother has made a rock garden out of the things she pulled out of the plot. Strange, they rise up each year, after tilling. Like pushing a stone uphill.

[siercia]

They seem to have the same gravity defying ability here, damn them. I may do some kind of rock garden with them, I dunno. Now I'm just using the biggest of them to make a border for the garden itself. Makes it look prettier.