One of the many things I’m doing here on the farm is
making and preparing beds for planting. For those who don’t know (though I
think most of my readers do know/who even is reading this/is this too meta of a
moment?), prepping a bed consists of first clearing the area of vegetation,
whether that means clearing old crops or removing grass and weeds. We do this
with hoe and then till the soil by hand. Compost is then added, and the soil is
further mixed. Here the soil is especially difficult to till, because the
almost perfect clay structures in the ancient tropical soil means that the soil
aggregates are super strong (shout out Simkins!).
 |
| Beds that I dug around some old asparagus plants. In between the asparagus we planted bush beans (also peep the papaya sapling in the back) |
 |
| A border bed for curry leaf transplants and later flowers |
 |
| A close up of a transplant, which will one day grow into a 5-6 ft curry tree |
No comments:
Post a Comment