What a difference a week makes. We spent all day last Sunday working outside in the beautiful sunshine. (One week earlier, there was three inches of snow on the ground.)
We've thought out a new system that should work better here in the south where water is scarce lately... and while providing better moisture retention should also double our plantable area!
- We will have two rows of garden fabric side by side, with a soaker hose that runs underneath, then one "walking row," and so on. The old way was to have one vegetable row, then a walking row, etc. With the new method we are cutting the number of walking rows in half. (In this pic I am just realizing how terribly sunburned my neck is.)
(A little music blaring from the hatchback always seems to make the work go faster.)
- We also added a mulch "lane" inside the perimeter of the fence line- with wide lanes also between the planting rows. (This time we will be able to bring in a trailer to help with the harvest!)
Lastly, we did a soil test before starting... We had slightly alkaline soil that needed fertilizer, which we added before planting.
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