On Wednesday, I didn’t go to work, a good idea made better by gardening all day. In the course of a couple hours, Josh and I made four wheel barrows full of dirt, potted 84 plants, put a lot more garlic in the ground, and laid out a plan for the garden for the next six months. I also built one of these. Last night it started raining, though it remained remarkably warm. Both these things point toward rapid sprouting.
The plantation is exceptionally leafy right now. A couple types of lettuce, mustard greens, collard green, kale, bok choy, chard, and more cover crop than you can shake a stick at, all sucking carbon out of the air. We’ve also, as I mentioned, got a good sized crop of garlic on the way (we repurposed a pants hanger to dry garlic on, but that’s counting your eggs before they hatch) and the planting yesterday will (hopefully) yield us basil, oregano, sage, thyme, parsley, marjoram, and peas.
The only expansion left on the near horizon is the potato stacks and the hops poles. Once we get those up and running (growing?), all we’ll have to do is water and eat. The fun part. The boring part. As we tend to our fields, the agitation for a new project will surely manifest itself.
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