New Garden

It is past time to finish planting gardens here, but I have been waiting till we had a well pump and electricity to run it. We got the last of those last week, so we laid out the garden and planted it.

Daddy cutting railroad ties for the ends of the beds.
A neighbor brought us a scoop of “dressing”, so we put a layer in the bottom of the beds. The soil here on top of the hill is very sandy and pretty poor, so I was very glad to have it.

I neglected to get a picture of us filling the beds with soil. Another neighbor is digging out a pond, and offered us some lovely top soil. It was a bit clumpy and had some weeds growing in it, of course, but it is nice and dark. I then put a shallow layer of peat moss on top, and planted stuff.

Planting the peppers.
I brought some old (very old) straw from the barn in Indian Valley to use as mulch. I didn’t bring quite enough, so finishing mulching will be a job for another day.
Finished for the day and being watered. I filled up these beds so fast that I think I will need more for next year!

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