Dig Dig Dig

Mid Semester Break. Time to dig the garden.

Spent what felt like the entire day digging over the left hand vegetable patch. Dug down one spade depth where the soil turned to clay. Took the top soild and broke it up by hand. This, needless to say, resulted in saw hands. The solid broke up easily. Green weeds were pretty much left in the soil but roots were removed. Large green weeds were added to the compost heap.

After digging it up, breaking it up, and turning it over, it was leveled off with a rake. About an inch of compost was added from the compost heap. Actualy, not the heap, more the compost dump. The clif on the left where the excess is being composted has a tone of compost. Barrowloads were dug up, seived through the large wooden seive, and then layered on top of the soil. From there it was worked with a hand-fork into the top few inches of soil.

Did not stand on the patch at all - this is, apparently, bad.

Finally, in went a single row of Niche Carrot (Rainbow Selection). More would have gone it but just too knackered to do it.

Carrot: sprout 7-21 days, harvest 10 weeks