This Old Home
We got started on the garden.
Its a modest 9 feet by 11 feet. We turned the area over, removed some roots, broke up lots of clumps, now we'll add some topsoil and such, and turn it over again.
We bought the 50 inch metal fence with the green sledge hammer it in posts to try to keep the deer out. I don't think the deer will be interested though cause its small. We will see. The deer actually made a visit a short time ago, three of them, a mom and two young ones.
Mitchel in the pachysandra which is in serious need of weeding.
posted by Sande at
7:50 PM
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By the way I use what's called the sq. ft. method. My garden is a raised bed in 2X4X8 wood frames with paths between. I have 3 of these boxes. I get tons of veggies from a fairly small area and it's easy to keep it weeded and watered. I highly recommend it for starter gardens. I'll send on pics of my lay out.
We were debating raised versus on the ground. The thing of it is around here we have deer that live in the woods nearby and they come through our yard several times a day. So it didn't matter what bed we still have to fence it in. The other thing is that we live in a house that used to be the main house for a large orchard and our backyard used to be cultivated land. So its a little bit a matter of trying to raise the ghosts as it were. Eventually I think we want to make the garden a lot bigger.
Bigger is better if u have the land. I don't and I live on a sandy Island, so that's a problem as well. The absolutely best stuff for keeping your garden productive is mushroom soil if you can find it. I refresh my gardens once a yr. with it. I get it from my cousin near Camden , NJ , he's prof. landscaper.
Yes, I've read about how mushrooms bring the right nutrients to different plants and such. We have that famous book on mushrooms and how they even use them at Chernobyl to clean up the radiation. Amazing.
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