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I need a pottery wheel.
Am going to plant my potatoes in homemade chicken wire tubes I saw on youtube.
I am going towards no till gardening, figure when the season is over, I can dump the compost/mulch out of the raised beds and spread over the garden area & try to build up the soil that way.
Was going to also try doing sections of the front yard with compost/mulch, and plant dutch clover, and see if that will help the goat burr issue. Was told & read that goat burrs do not like healthy soil.
I hear ya about the clay! Adobe here we come. Come to think of it the next time I want to add a coop I could do mud brick. Of course my husband would have a fit, but that's never stopped me before. Helps keep his blood flowing that way. Just thought I would mention it as it's a very old timer trick to loosen soil and it works like a charm. When I was teaching my son, then three, to plant potatoes we put them in the same bed as the strawberries so they had a soaker hose on them. He had red pontiacs as big as his head! And a whole lot of them too. We only peeled one potato for dinner. Course I think that where he planted them was pretty much horse manure only, but hey he got great potatoes out of it so he was very happy. My carrots come out nice and long and almost straight up and down, and I get the best sweet potatoes too! I have three horses and am still always looking for more manure. The more the merrier I say, but I have hugh gardens and am landscaping with fruit around the house too.
I hope your chicken wire potato bed works our I tried some bag things and was very disappointed. What potatoes I got were small and the work from watering was just too much. They just got too hot sitting out side of the ground. I do tons of self watering containers for parts of my gardening. I prefer to do things like lettuce or greens and peppers and tomatoes do awesome in them. When I lived in an apt. that was my only choice for gardening and I can grow just about anythin in a pot, but still prefer to plant most things in the ground as I like the way they come out that way. It's funny to think of how my deck always used to look. It was pretty, but it was still a jungle.
