Preparing for Planting

Planting outside will may begin as early as this week.  In order to do this we needed to start preparing the soil and pulling up grass for new plants.  Our garden currently needed to be tilled, and we plan to plant grapes around our chicken coop.  Here are photos of what it looked like prior to our weekend's work.

We are also moving some raspberries to allow them to spread.  Last year we only really had one bush which only produced berries once.  We are moving heritage raspberries which will produce berries all summer.  You can't see from these photos and close ups were too blurry but they are alive and well.

After tilling the garden we allow the chickens to peck up any seeds that the tilling brings to the surface.  (When you till the soil it brings up seeds and allows them to flourish unless you take preventative actions).

  We also pulled the grass and prepared to plant concord grapes around the coop, this will provide shade to the chickens, and also allow the grapes to clime as needed. 

We have also tilled all the soil and are ready to plant the asparagus this week, and additional plants as it warms enough. 

In order for the plants to be ready we need a better and larger grow station.  We have the light, but needed a frame to hold it.  We used wood left over from the chicken coop.

We used this to set up the light.

 



This will help our brussel sprouts, tomatoes, eggplants and peppers to continue growing.

 

We look forward to planting soon.