Yesterday Peter and Rose and I made a small round plot for peas. We will be growing Sugar Snap, Snow, and Shell Peas this year. What a joy digging in the dirt as a family - and Rose said she wants to help more with the garden this year - hurray! The work feels much more manageable when we work together and bite off small chunks at a time, rather than double digging a 5'x20' bed by myself like I did two years ago. After removing the sod, we added lime, borax, and epsom salt, as well as soil from one of our other beds that is too high in P and K. Our gardening teacher, Calvin Bey, harmonygardens.blogspot.com, suggested using that soil as fertilizer for other beds. We have several other beds that are too rich from using a deep mulch chicken tractor system which can also serve as sources of fertilizer. Now the chickens free range rather than being confined to the tractor. Now we just have to figure out how to keep them out of the gardens!
We ordered fruit trees! 1 each of Fuji, Braeburn, and Arkansas Black apples, 1 each of Stella, Montmorency, and bing cheerries, an Angel Red pomegranate tree - the seeds are supposed to be soft enough for everyone to eat, not just hard-core pomegranate eaters like me!
We are so excited to begin growing an abundance of food to eat and share.
Coming soon: starting seeds, building the cold frame, planting the fruit trees
