bed 60

i rented another bed at the community garden to plant herbs and one of my daughters wants to grow tomatoes and peppers...my best thinking is that bed 60 has been fallow for a time...

so i cleared it, dug and hoed it...and the dug and hoed it again...

along the way i found quite a few earthworms...and, unfortunately, dispossessed a field mouse...

more distressingly, i uprooted a couple of bees...i am no more happy about this than they are...they can, if they wish, migrate to my back yard...there are vacancies in the old nurse log at the end of the patio...

there is not a garden center around here that has bagged compost or garden soil in stock so i broke into the reserves and dug two five gallon buckets of compost out of the bin in the back yard...

which i took and spread, along with what bagged compost and garden soil i had left, over the bed after the second dig/hoe...there is, i believe, planting scheduled for tomorrow...mind the bees...

over in bed six things are coming along...the spud corner is booming, the celery, kohlrabi, and turnips are fine...and all the maize i put in is up...

some robust little fellows...soon enough it will be time to plant pole beans to take advantage of the free cornstalk trellises and have two thirds of the the three sisters growing...the back yard here is blooming too...however that is a different post.