The garden is coming together, slowly but surely. We've been busy preparing the beds, so I don't have much plant news. My husband has been a trooper - building beds, shoveling dirt, lifting windows, and pretty much just being an all-around good guy. He's fun to be around when he's working... plus he's great to look at! ;-)
We now have four 4x4 raised beds (15" high). We stapled hardware cloth to the bottom to deter rabbits (and rodents) from coming up from the bottom like they did in my last bed. (Those little buggers!!!) We have an existing 4x12 bed that was badly in need of revitalizing. We removed the trees growing in there (yes, trees!!!), broke up the sod, and we're sifting all the dirt through hardware cloth (almost done with this). We also have plans for one more 4x12 bed. All told, we'll have 160 sq ft of raised bed gardening space.
The area entire area is tilled and ready to be organized into cute little gardens. The beds need a bit of leveling, since our site is on a small slope, which is why we made them smaller (4x4). So it's not as easy as just plunking them down as they are. I have two out of three leveled as I want them. Hope to get to the others tomorrow but work beckons so I'm not sure if I'll have time.
Also found some amazing free soil on Craigslist. Was expecting rocky "fill" with lots of rocks, but got black dirt that is almost like potting soil. No rocks, no sod, and decent aeration. Neutral ph. Testing for lead tonight. Will test for P, N, K tomorrow. DH and I have made two trips already, probably need to do at least one more to get enough. Plan to mix it with peat moss and horse manure (also a find on Craigslist).
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