Saturday we started planting! Caleb and I got one last load of compost and after that we were ready to plant. It was super easy to plant in the soft layers. The lasagna gardening experience has been great so far.
Angie did some reading from Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew and mapped out our boxes for each group of plants. We uses the handle of the hoe to make a grid to space things accordingly. Here Hannah and Angie are planting peas.
It is very interesting to see what each plant seed looks like. Some, like carrot seeds are really tiny, others are bigger than you would expect. Here are our pea seeds.
Natalie is planting potatoes, we dug a hole clear down to the bottom, and dropped in the potato.
Levi was a big helper!
I'm not too familiar with this style of gardening but I'm definitely interested in seeing how it turns out. I'll be checking back in to see how you fare. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteThanks Drew. It has been fun so far. Planting has been much easier for us because the normal "ground" in our area is hard clay. Pulling weeds should be easy as well.
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