Version 7??

Here it is, the layout for the latest version of the garden.

I'm not exactly sure the no-till aspect really helped last year. The garden was pitiful. Also, no matter how much fertilizer I put on it, I hardly got anything. Looks like I have to test the soil again and see what's missing. Also, I really do need to till it. The crabgrass is just insane and is taking over all my beds. It needs to get shredded. I also need to do a better job of weeding. I'm trying to find lower intensity means of doing this, so I think I will be adding some of that black bedding cover to keep the weeds down, still deciding. Or at least some way of making it much easier to weed.

The driveway bed downslope side is also collapsing, so I'm going to flip it over, and then think about how to replace it with something more sturdy next year. Some kind of low retaining wall. 

So without further ado, here is the plan:

April to Post Morterm?

Sorry folks, I didn't mean to lapse until now to get anything online. Doing a lot of work so when I get off the computer at the end of the day, I don't want to keep blogging. Also, working on another novel so I...well its just too much typing.

So here is the deal with the 2013 season: It sucked.

The season was really cool, we hardly had any 'hot' days down here. Spring was really wet and cold, and when summer got here it was perfect, but has no water. Fertilized numerous times, watered, etc. but things just didn't yield like I wanted them too.

I planted a bunch of sweet corn in the Main Bed that got pulverized in July in a hail storm (really felt like Laura Ingalls dad in one episode of "Little House on the Prairie.") After they all got smashed I replanted. They finally came up and I got some sweet corn out, but they were really stunted and only had 3 ears or so that we big enough to eat, although they tasted good.


That was pretty much it.