bed six

i went out and invested in a few hundred pounds of composted manure this afternoon and took it over to the community garden...

i spread it out reasonably evenly and turned it under...the seemed to have been turned since i was there last so thanks to whoever was responsible....it made the task that much easier...after i turned the compost under i went over the bed with a warren hoe to break up the soil and disrupt any roots that might have been hanging around and evened the bed out as well as i could by hand ( i neglected to bring a rake )...

i have more than a few seed potatoes at home that are clamoring to be planted so i brought along a few german butterballs, a michigan blue, and an elmer's blue to start the bed off with...

put them in the southwest corner of the bed...the rest will be put in down the road....so far the only thing definite will be a row of maize along the north edge...the rest is undecided but will probably be the standard sort of things...we will leave the experimentation for the back yard