I've finally made it out into the garden! There are still quite a few chores that need doing though, but I've made a little start. With a bit of help from my Organic Garden Calendar by Kath Irvine, and a few other books I have on hand I've put the list together.
~ Weed a couple of garden beds (ones which will be slighted shaded over the depths of winter), lightly turning the top layer of soil (don't want to do too much so I don't damage the structure of the soil at this time of year) and sprinkle on handfuls of Blue Lupin seeds so I can grow a winter cover crop, and then rake the soil over. This will be the first year I have done this, but have been meaning to since I learned about them when I did my Organic Hort Course 3-4yrs ago. - check
~ Add compost to the beds.
~ Put up some seed trays (or buy the seedlings): lettuce, spring onions, peas, carrots, spinach, silverbeet. Onion seedlings are already in.
~ Bulbs and sweet pea seeds need to go in.
~ Clean out the chicken coop and sprinkle all the poo on the garden bed I've set aside for my garlic - check
(these beds will also get a good dose of fish meal, woodfire ash and compost).
~ Replant calendula and borage seedlings that self-sowed (and put extras on freecycle for others to come and take away). - check
~ Add carbon back to the soil - dig in carbon by-products such as corn stalks, brocollis, peas and beans. Also mulch with straw (great if it comes out of the chicken coop with food scraps and chicken poo mixed in) and dry material from around our property.
~ Replant the strawberries and any new runners into well composted beds.
2 comments:
glad you reminded me about sweet peas. I haven't grown them for a while - never enough space amongst the edibles - but they're so lovely that this year I'm going to make space. My garlic is already in, but then my climate is sub-tropical.
Hi Linda, yes I know what you mean! Last year was my first time growing them and I really loved having them there.
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