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Has Spring Sprung?

Filed under: General — Kyndra @ 1:28 pm

Planting Strawberries and House -Raising

Filed under: General — Kyndra @ 9:30 am

Yesterday I finally got the strawberries planted. I got 50 plants in the mail about three weeks ago and have been keeping them in water until I got a chance to plant. Normally this would onnly be a temporary (two or three day expedient) but as the property is all woods and has no tilled soil I had to prepare a bed before I could actually plant.

Of course if I had been a little more on the ball I would have gotten this done sooner, but between a heavy summer cold and a week of rain it wasn’t until yesterday that I rented a tiller at our local hardware store and prepared a 15 x 15 foot bed.

Actually this was twice the amount of bed that I needed but I have other things to plant as well (potatoes, jerusalem artichokes, and gladioli) so I did some extra tilling while I had the machine.

I chose a nice sunny spot under the power line that crosses the farm. This was mostly because right now that area is the ONLY sunny spot, everything else is fairly heavily wooded. A week ago I went out with ax and shovel and dug up all of the little saplings that were in the area I wanted to plant. This included chopping out as much of the roots as I could and removing all the rocks I could find (and it is really strange to be gardening somewhere where ROCKS are a problem!).

Then yesterday I used a little Honda Mantis tiller to break up the top of the soil to a depth of about three inches. After tilling for about half an hour I stopped and used the shovel to loosen the soil 6-8 inched deep then tilled again. It would have been faster with a bigger machine but I’m not big enough to lift something heavier out of the truck and this worked ok (although my shoulders are feeling it this morning – I’ll blame any typos on this).

Anyway the strawberries are planted and the asparagus is up (planted a couple weeks ago). The houseraising is Saturday and IF I REMEMBER to get a camera I’ll post pictures next week!

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Planting Strawberries and House -Raising

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