Neglect could be a word used to describe the state of both this blog and my gardening in general. To my credit I did move away from my beloved garden in August, but worry not as my new home has an even larger garden thanks to my landlord (read slumlord) Greg. Greg did an amazing job this summer planting a whole mess of potatoes that are still being harvested, a ton of tomatoes, a prize winning zucchini (if there were prizes to be awarded), beans, peas, carrots... A whole lot of Miettinen.
The existing garden consisted of 4 square plots roughly 4'x4' each but Greg and I had the intention of expanding this to give me some room to garden as well as rotate the existing crops. This past Sunday, armed with an empty stomach and a window of sunny weather we tackled the expansion. This involved removing many of the perimeter stones which I quickly found out were large, numerous and heavy. Meanwhile the area to be expanded into needed to have all the morning glory and blackberry vines removed along will all the weeds and other crap back there. We found a long strip of landscaping fabric in the back section of the garden which actually helped remove a lot of the vines despite being a pain to lift up.
All said and done the garden now consists of 6 plots with the stone perimeter back in action. The soil on the new plots itself will have to be dug up and prepared before the spring. I have heard that seaweed is good for your soil so Greg and I might have to collect some down at the beach to mulch into the garden. The very exciting photos of the completed work are below.
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