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Seeds in a tray and in the ground

Category: My Front Yard Garden | Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:57 pm

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Well last week, 2/18/8, I started two kinds of Spinach, 2 kinds of cabbage and some kale, 5 tray cells of each variety. Some sprouted and others I have reseeded. Today I planted four 14-foot rows of a Sugar Snap peas.

The lettuce in the cold frame continues to grow well. Although one head of lettuce just wilted and died a week or so ago. I can probably begin to harvest at any time but I think I will give them about two more weeks.


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Soil is prepped and seeds are here

Category: My Front Yard Garden | Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:55 pm

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Well my soil has been loosened and a couple inches of some real nice compost has been added.

Check this truck load out and guess how much a load of compost like this costs.

Just $12.50 for all of this. There were probably 2 wheelbarrow loads laying on the ground behind the truck when I pulled away because the bucket on the loader was longer then the truck.

So here is the ground prepped


Here is the top coated garden


Closeup of the compost


Here is my Cilantro growing from last years seed drop.


This is what the contents of the cold frame looks like.




AsI mentioned above my seeds arrived today. Tommorow the sugar snap peasgo in the ground and I start a tray of seeds inside.

Seeya,
Uncle Jabba

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Turning dirt (barefoot) in NC

Category: My Front Yard Garden | Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:17 pm

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Hello All:

Just wanted to post a quick update. It was beautiful here in the North Carolina Piedmont today. In anticipation of my seed order arriving I took the garden fork and loosened about a 1/3 of my garden this morning. It was so warm I was working barefoot, wearing shorts and a tshirt. I love to garden barefoot it just feels so nice to be barefoot in good garden soil. I saw a lot of nice fat worms today. Most had at least one visible One fork full of dirt had three in it.

I also gathered a soil sample and took it into Raleigh today and dropped it off at the NC Ag dept lab. It is amazing to see the volume of orders waiting to be processed. There were mail carts filled with boxes just arrived with the mail, There were even pallets of little boxes. It only took a couple of weeks last year but they were not backed up on the loading dock.

I think I am going to see if a neighbor will let me get him to take me to get a load of compost. There is a landfill that composts the local yard waste. Its really nice looking and pretty inexpensive. I would like to finishing loosing up the soil this week then get a deep layer of compost on top. It will really help to drought proof my garden and minimize my drip irrigation usage this summer.

Seeya,

Uncle Jabba

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