What did you do in the garden today?

[jerryse]

I planted peas today sugar snap and snow peas . Rain coming tonight . Radishes and spinach are up . Low of 25 predicted for Friday morning .

 

[ChickenOnaChain]

Wow! Yall have been busy. We're going to plant sweet corn,tomatoes ,onions and peppers this year.

 

[Bugseye]

Beekissed, I share your excitement over seeing how healthy the garden soil is. Mine is like that too. I've seeded a few things and have tomato seedlings coming up inside; but today just didn't have enough hours to do more gardening. I am pruning the raspberries, and it's taking a while, as it's a long patch with lots of old canes. I did take the time to make a cherry pie, though, and it's yummy.

 

[Beekissed]

I love cherry pie! That's something you don't see much of nowadays....pie...especially cherry pie!

 

[chickadoodles]

It's nice to hear everyone is working and waiting on their gardens.


I re-potted my Nankin Cherry tree it's leafing out and blooming. .

 

[AlHawk]

I was able to put a front gate on one section of my compost pile and built a second section. It wasn't much but it'll keep the chickens out of the pile and throwing old chips etc out into the yard.

 

[Bugseye]

Let 'em in. They'll turn the pile for you.

 

[Bugseye]

I love cherry pie!  That's something you don't see much of nowadays....pie...especially cherry pie!    

Thanks for the applause. I don't get the ovation thing; just haven't figured it out yet. I'ts probably right here somewhere. The pie is great.

 

[OrganicFarmWife]

Thanks for the applause. I don't get the ovation thing; just haven't figured it out yet. I'ts probably right here somewhere. The pie is great.

It is the little thumbs up button at the bottom of each post.

 

[Bugseye]

Finally getting something more planted in the garden.  Today doing several hundred sweet onion~from seed~garlic, lettuce, carrots, broccoli, asparagus, sugar snap peas, and spinach.  From here on out I'll be doing succession plantings of lettuce and carrots, lettuce, spinach, etc.  I want to grow enough for our consumption, for extended family and also for giving away. 

It's almost 70* here today with breezy to gusty wind, so not too bad of planting weather.  I'm loving the soft, dark soil under the wood chips and leaves...such a HUGE difference from our usual tan, hard as a rock clay structure.  You can clearly see the line where the wood chips and leaves are being composted and pulled into the soil by earthworms, making that layer more crumbly, darker and less compacted.  Each year that should be a deeper and deeper layer of loose, rich soil as these chips continue to break down. 

And worms....I've never seen so many worms in a garden in my life!    I'm sure that folks out there with good soil are used to seeing a lot of worm life when they dig in their gardens, but I'm not used to seeing this number or size of worms in this soil.  I can lay my hand out on the soil and be on top of ten worms, most of them large but some smaller, half grown worms.  Every scrape of the hoe to move the chips back is cutting worms, which I hate to do but I accidentally left my rake at my son's house and had to resort to using a hoe today. 

I'm really loving this BTE garden method and I'm loving planting with the use of these homemade seed tapes...what a breeze!!! 

I've probably mentioned this before, but I am enjoying Teaming With Microbes; DH gave it to me at Christmas. It keeps reminding me that everything in the universe is connected: God's plan. Walking downtown this morning, I saw a lovely 4-6 inch earthworm crossing a gravel path. Wish I could have brought her home to join the rest. Not sure if BTE goes into as much depth on the mycorrhizae and their connections as does TWM, but the creation is pretty amazing!