UPDATE-SKI:
GARDEN OVERHAUL'N "Heavy Machinery Addition"
Time to overhaul the garden and get that shiz ready for next season. It just looks like a wreck in the picture lol. We took down the fence and rolled it up for safe keeping. Pulled up all of the plants and threw them to the side for our compost pile. Now it's time to do work!
First thing's first....contacted local topsoil company and got the hookup with some grade A black gold from an old football field they were ripping up. We had to drive about 45 minutes away to the actual field to pick it up. Which is awesome because now I really know where it came from and don't have to worry about poor quality. They took it from the field and dumped it in the back of Jeremy's duelly. It was 11.00 a cubic yard....man o man did that soil have the ass end of his truck squatin'...prob. running around 6,000lbs or more lol
Now that we kicked that dirt pile's ass.....TA DAAAAA
Alright, now on to phase two of garden whoop ass. Local sand and gravel pit......next trip on the docket. We went to this place on a Saturday morning....it was like a barren wasteland. We drove around the dump for 30 minutes trying to find someone to help us out! The lady I finally found....what a moron. I walked up to the scale house, which she was in. (you know the big scales that you drive on to get weighed...well she was in a dinky little house right beside it...lol) She talked on her cell phone the whole time I was trying to do business with her and then didn't give us the ticket...so once we got to the compost pile, we had to drive back for the ticket hahahahaha...oh man she made my morning alright. Anyways long story short.....more heavy machinery doin' work! 10.95 a cubic yard.
Alright, now that we have that loaded up.....time to unload it...lol FUN TIMES. We took the steaming pile back to the house and dumped it on top of the 3 yards of topsoil we had laid over the garden yesterday. So now the garden is 3yards deep in topsoil and 3yards deep in compost....TIME TO ADD SOME MORE. We emptied out the fire pit of 3 years worth of ash, took (4) 3.8cuft bags of Sunshine Advanced Mix #4 and poured it onto the slew of greatness we have going on already. (Which had a ton of perlite in it) Last but not least, I added half a bag of lime. You know what time it is now? It's time to rent the big ass tiller again and toss this garden's salad!
Little man helping out with the compost pile too. GET'TER DONE (that help lasted about 3 minutes and then he got bored with it and walked away)
I'll tell you what, this broke the camels back (the camel being me...lol) It was well worth it though. Now the garden is fluffed for next year and ready to go. All of the goodness we put into the garden will have time to come to life and be ready to accept new life in the spring. Now it's time to make sure all of these overwinters hang on and make it for the next few months!
I am still sore from this excursion. We added so much material to the garden, once we rented the tiller, we had to rake the stuff we added to the side so that we could get down to the old garden! I was cracking up.....so we went over the new stuff with the tiller, then we raked back a row of what we added, tilled the under layer and then pushed the row back over.....we did this six times (for six rows) It was the only way to get the old garden (which is basically still clay) tilled up and to mix with the new material. It was back braking but we finished it and it looks like it's going to be some great stuff to grow in next year. We are going to put the fence back up and toss in a layer of leaves to protect the top of the soil from the elements.
Well that's it for the garden this year. We still have the compost pile to get too and the indoor grow to worry about.....it's gonna be a loooooooong winter...
you didn't mess around. Nice. Your post could be a truck commercial. That stuff should be like magic for you next year. My only thought, and take it for what it's worth, if you have some leaves or something, mulch them with your mower and cover up your soil for the winter. I think it'll keep everything there and give you a jump start on your microbiotics for the spring.
