first bed

Finished clearing weeds and measuring up the first bed. Thinking of names to call them as the nifty planner has a title block, good idea to keep track.

I didn’t bother marking the squares too accurately. I was going to use chopsticks and string but I don’t have enough of them yet, so I just dragged the hoe through the foot increments. It’ll do for the bean trial garden I want to put in right now. The biodynamic Calendar says it’s a good time for fruits so it’s a go. I bought Maria Thuns book a few years ago, and read Steiner. I read and study so much, but the actual practice of gardening is a disaster.

I love love fresh green beans, I’ll eat them off the vine raw. My favorite bean dish is definitely green bean stew, sometimes with sour cream, or made with wax beans. To kick it up a few rich notches, dollop a spoonful of beef stew in the middle, rich! Yum. Oh yeah, add a splash of the spiced vinegar to cut the richness. I’m thinking I’ll have to start a recipe page if all goes well. Hungarian food as I knew it was vegetable heavy, so many great meals.

I did get soil from two places so I can sift it and send the two cups to the lab. I’m forcing myself to be scientific and as methodical as possible, it’s tough, by nature I’m impulsive and a little haphazard.

 

 

Csi Csa, big help, but better than walking over everything I’m doing as usual.

I’m tired of getting my seed packets full of soil, so I decided to make my seed tray based on my sfg plan.
This idea works well in theory, but I bumped it a little and they jumped spaces. Good thing I could tell them apart.
I’m thinking I need something like a pez dispenser instead.
I got the beans planted, marrow and cucumber seedlings planted. Trellis for the pole beans (thinking positive)
And…sifted my soil sample. I was going to leave it on the porch to dry, but thought not in case Kitty thinks its her litter box.
Not that she uses it all the time, she’s mostly an outside cat who lived her formative years under the shed and inside my husbands car.
But that’s another story for a rainy day.

I officially hate this game. I was putting in bean maturity dates and I inadvertently deleted the bed. No undo. This is all that’s left.
I’m going back to my notebook with a pencil and big fat eraser and not  playing with this planner anymore, instead I’m going to make some squash soup.