Yesterday right
before getting a little bit of rain we planted 8 potatoes in those
tires I lined up in between my fruit trees. (yes 8 even though I
have 7 tires) They are Yukon Gold's as I'm hoping for some nice
potatoes out of them. It's also a trial on what I see/have seen from
some other homesteaders using old tires to grow potatoes.
Especially after any time I did a potato “bed” my chickens would
get loose and wind up digging through the patch and eating them.
Guess what chickens love potatoes.
My peas are starting
to grow faster, and I am hoping for a good amount of peas off of
them. My spinach is starting to set true leaves and the onions are
coming up now as well. I am hopeful that I will be thinning the
lettuce in a week. I had to rebuy my Dark Star zucchini as I could
not find the seed packet, thankfully a lot of local stores carry
Seeds of Change and they had them in the display. For the most part
I do buy my seeds from Baker Creek but this one variety I happen to
really like and Baker Creek doesn't carry it.
Yesterday had some
interesting happenings on Craigslist here, I'm not sure if it
happened near you or not. However, due to it being April 1st
some idiots decided to post some fake free items with other people's
phone numbers. I was caught by one as if it had been real it would
have benefited us a lot here. I do hope however the person didn't
get many calls. I don't understand why people would do something so
asinine though.
Yesterday we went
and got another truck bed load of composted wood from the lumber mill
(free is good in this case). We did mix in some of the sawdust with
it to help keep it a bit more loosened. It will soon become part of
new beds that will grow as time goes on.
...and speaking of
that “style” of gardening I did find the video of Ruth Stout's
garden on youtube. I had forgotten that someone did a video on here
in the 1970's. I was very excited to see it, her methods are very
simple and if you take hers and add in lasagna gardening and regular
no till it makes wonderful soil.
We have a few days
of rain ahead of us (yeah spring), so we'll be workign as weather
permitts us to here.
Be Well, Be Safe,
and Blessed Be...
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