Just got back from the Millwoods plot and we got alot done tonight! Found some scrap wood and cut it to size so we have a little over half the boards needed for the frames of the beds.
Got the peat moss bales x2…and those really were not fun to attempt to get out of the home depot cart and into the car by myself. Some nice guy put them in the cart for me, made it look like they weighed 5 pounds instead of about 100lbs. (Lexie is around 60 or 70 pounds and I can lift her even when squirmy, but these bales were just about too much entirely for me.)
Also bought 40 litres of perlite to add to the soil. the compost was available too. So we shovelled like mad and spread the compost, peat and perlite onto the areas planned for the beds and fortuitously found a rototiller and tilled it in. That made it go really fast! now I just have to get the rest of the boards and cut them to size and get them dug in to mark the beds. Once that’s done, I build and install the vertical frames and cages. then I can plant!
It looks very hopeful to have the garden planted by the end of the 28th if the weather remains dry.
Here are some pictures of the Millwoods plot. We are plot #12. check out the chunkiness of the soil – I think the school must’ve rototilled when the soil was still a bit wet and mucky perhaps.
Lookit the chunks in that dry soil!
A good view just before the final till.
Darren getting ready to till in the additives.
Our plot right after tilling in the compost, peat, and perlite.
