YUK!
I was hoping to get a little more garden work done today bc weather was supposed to be ok after a little rain this morning. But, now looks to rain for much of morning into afternoon, then more rain later for the foreseeable future (including some snow). So, I'll keep my eyes open for an opportunity to get out there.
The weather Sun/Mon looks worse than it did yesterday. So, I'll guess impending goat births. DH said the lighter one sounded a little different this morning, but otherwise was not doing anything different, didn't look different, but birth is going to happen this week!
Yesterday, I planted a bed of potatoes. Added some onion starts to the strawberry bed.
I have a 4 square Rhubarb bed. Planted early 2022. Last year 2 of them tried to flower (not desirable for rhubarb), and the dirt had sunk quite a bit bc we had used a fair amount of compost with the dirt. So, I decided to split the Rhubarb.
2022: left side (top and bottom) Victoria Rhubarb (you can get at Walmart), Top right "Kanga-Rhu" a hotter weather hybrid and bottom right: Crimson Red - both purchased from Gurneys, I think.
So, I wanted more plants of the Crimson, so I removed bottom Victoria plant (will give to a friend), and split the Crimson Red into 4ths - it was huge and required an ax and mallet. They were reburied - 2 per quadrant. When I was working on the upper "Kanga-Rhu" a new plant split off the main plant - this plant and root system aren't as big as the other Rhubarbs, so I was only going to raise the soil....but with this extra plant that split off, I planted it near the inner corner, and planted the main plant again - this took a lot of soil! The last quadrant needs work, but I ran out of soil. I'll get to that later!
Here is one plant a couple of weeks ago - lots of nice buds!
I was hoping to get a little more garden work done today bc weather was supposed to be ok after a little rain this morning. But, now looks to rain for much of morning into afternoon, then more rain later for the foreseeable future (including some snow). So, I'll keep my eyes open for an opportunity to get out there.
The weather Sun/Mon looks worse than it did yesterday. So, I'll guess impending goat births. DH said the lighter one sounded a little different this morning, but otherwise was not doing anything different, didn't look different, but birth is going to happen this week!
Yesterday, I planted a bed of potatoes. Added some onion starts to the strawberry bed.
I have a 4 square Rhubarb bed. Planted early 2022. Last year 2 of them tried to flower (not desirable for rhubarb), and the dirt had sunk quite a bit bc we had used a fair amount of compost with the dirt. So, I decided to split the Rhubarb.
2022: left side (top and bottom) Victoria Rhubarb (you can get at Walmart), Top right "Kanga-Rhu" a hotter weather hybrid and bottom right: Crimson Red - both purchased from Gurneys, I think.
So, I wanted more plants of the Crimson, so I removed bottom Victoria plant (will give to a friend), and split the Crimson Red into 4ths - it was huge and required an ax and mallet. They were reburied - 2 per quadrant. When I was working on the upper "Kanga-Rhu" a new plant split off the main plant - this plant and root system aren't as big as the other Rhubarbs, so I was only going to raise the soil....but with this extra plant that split off, I planted it near the inner corner, and planted the main plant again - this took a lot of soil! The last quadrant needs work, but I ran out of soil. I'll get to that later!
Here is one plant a couple of weeks ago - lots of nice buds!
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This is fully rotted compost, what is underneath my composting leaf piles. It's not dirt, because we have yellow clay. 
