12 cubic yards of dirt (between 14-24,000 THOUSAND pounds) has been delivered, and we are working on getting the rest of the yard covered. At this point, we are now just about halfway there!
As you can see, the soil doesn't have much organic matter, and it is rather sandy, without aggregates. The plants that are here right now are mostly non-native grasses & catsear, with some hardy natives like selfheal.
We're going to start by deep mulching (often called sheet mulching or lasagna gardening) this fall, with an eye towards planting in the spring. We will plant some things this fall, mostly leafy greens & raspberries once they've gone dormant. The deep mulching will add lots of organic matter, support soil life (which in turn supports plant life), kill off the grass, and just generally improve everything.
One of the big things we'll be doing is interplanting, with a wide range of species. Some to help support mycorrhizae, some to make it harder for insect pest to find our crops, and some to provide habitat for beneficial insects. Things like white clover, marigolds, and yarrow. I don't have pictures to post of that yet, so you'll just have to imagine!
I decided to do a thing. I touched grass, and all kinds of other gross, I mean, fun stuff, and took pictures because I wanted to be closer to nature...
mhua ha ha ha, no, I did it because vegetables are fucking stupidly expensive at the grocery store.
This was me watching shit ring up in the checkout line -
I made a small raised garden in the back yard out of scrap wood and some quickly gathered materials, and then loosely followed the wisdom of this lady -
and here is the journey with some pictures:
The basic layers are in the handy picture I made for myself to refer to in six months when I don't remember how to make dirt.
My mind, whenever someone asks me how I did a thing in the past -
Next year will be just newspaper/cardboard and the leaves/grass clippings. Although some wood chips that have the mycelium threads would be great to get in there someday, or maybe a little wood chipper for fallen limbs to just make my own.
I thought about going full country and starting a compost pile, but it seems like more work than the lasagna gardening itself to maintain and keep up with, so no.
Planted so far is Thai Basil, Broccoli, Jalapenos, and Strawberries, with Asparagus planned for the back section.
Long term I would like 5 total beds with trellis on the end and possibly arching back to the fence.
Potatoes, garlic, onions and plenty of herbs are planned for future beds, with the largest bed designated for three sisters - squash, corn and beans.
Asparagus is a fricking nuisance plants in some areas up north but its 8 dollars a shitty handful at Publix? Fuck that noise, now I got the cash crops, IE - crops that let me keeps my cash.
I'll try not to be that usual internet stranger that never posts an update!
Like the Wax Beans, and heaps of other seeds, I sowed bell peppers I had harvested when cooking with these delicious vegetables, and then left to dry, on the 26th February. I sowed three seeds in each cup of an egg box (dozen eggs), in potting soil. I watered the sows and placed the egg box (with many others, containing other seeds) on a the table under a window in ‘The Nursery’. I watered them regularly.
On the 20th March, the egg box seeds were sprouting, as if to celebrate Spring! I kept watering them regularly.
On the 14th April, when the Bell Pepper Seedlings reached about 7 centimetres/2.75 inches and started growing proper leaves (after the two first “leaves” which are actually their dicot cotyledon), I repotted them in larger pots filled with a mixture of garden soil and potting soil, three seedlings in each pot. I took them back up to the Nursery, and continued watering them and watching them grow.
Finally, on the 28th April when the Lasagna Garden was ready for planting, and the Bell Pepper Seedlings were over 10 centimtres/4 inches, I planted these nine seedlings in the rich soil and watered them. The next day, I sowed parsnips (which are good companions to Bell Peppers), turnips and salsify in the Lasagna Garden. So far, they are taking well. I continue watering them regularly. (But I have more seedlings growing in the Nursery if necessary!)
Hopefully, I shall write, in the Summer, about growing and harvesting Bell Peppers!
the second I stepped into my aunt and uncle's house my uncle was like ok we eat! And I was like oh that's ok I just have to set up the printer! And he goes 'but I made a lasagna 🥺'
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It's lasagna with cacio e pepe! Ricotta, mozzarella, and plenty of freshly ground pepper are added to Pecorino Romano to make a simple vegetarian lasagna for a busy weeknight.
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Today we did some laundry and editing together ♡ Then I had some unfilmed breakfast with hannah (because you don't have to see EVERYTHING plz) and then I streamed some DBD. I also stabbed tf out of a lasagna package and it was w o n d e r f u l ♡