Hay While The Sun Shines
“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
~ Dale Carnegie, American writer and lecturer
This is our first year of gardening and we are finally getting in our first plants for the season. :-)
Thanks to Serge’s great research we are planting our organic garden by the moon (check it out here and here.) And, thanks to both of our physical labor, the first beds were tilled and filled and planted today.
Serge had a blast coating his potato starts in natural sulfur and placing them in the 2×2′ potato boxes. Box #1 in named Grawp and has big Kennebec potatoes in it. Box #2 is named Hagrid and has Yukon Golds in it. We’ll see how they turn out.
I am also very interested in companion planting so we are mixing carrots, onion and lettuce in the 8×4′ bed which is named Joy. Yes, we know it’s weird to name our beds instead of numbering them but, so what!
Not all of the beds are built yet but the root veggies which needed to go in during the 3rd quarter of the moon, are in their beds sleeping tight tonight.
We will plant some more onions and carrots out of their proper moon phase to see the difference in how they turn out.
Garlic will have to go in late for this one first year of gardening because our local farmers co-op was out of them already. We also had to drive halfway-across the state to another farmers supply to find potato starts. I guess we needed to buy them by the end of April according to the helpful lady at the second farm supply. (Lesson learned.)
Tomorrow we have a little helper in the form of our roommate, so hopefully more strides will be made in building, tilling and filling beds as well as towards tearing down that huge pile of loam/peat/compost mix in the back yard! Yippee!