Answers to questions

Category: My Front Yard Garden | Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 4:21 pm

Hola Y'all:

Here are some answers to the questions in the comments to my initial blog post.

Where are you that you are starting a garden now?

I am in Central, NC (also know as the piedmont) where the weather was in the low 70's this last weekend.

The dirt is beautiful. Is it naturally like that, or did you add amendments?

The dirt is definitely not naturally like that here. I have been gardening this spot for about 5 years now and prior to that this was a rose garden for three years or so. I have been adding my homemade compost the whole time as well as adding commercial bags of composted manure, topsoil and truckloads of leaves. I have not added any commercial fertilizer to this plot for over 4 years. Last year I did start using an organic fertilizer. I am also planning on sending in a soil sample this year for analysis to see what may need to be done to further amend it. Also, at one point or another the entire garden has been hand dug down two to three feet deep to turn in the good stuff into the natural existing sand/clay mixture the comprises the rest of the yard. To plant a tree one time I dug a hole using a pickax, a roto-tiller and a shovel to make the hole. After only getting down 6 inches or so I gave up for the day and decided to fill the hole with water to help make it easier to dig. That did not go so well....it took DAYS for the water to be absorbed.

What are you going to plant?
This is a vegetable garden and will be filled with Heirloom and organic seeds. Early Spring crop will include Snow peas, radishes, beets, fingerling carrots and maybe some greens of some sort. I will also be planting lettuce as soon as possible. Summer will include more lettuce/greens, tomatoes, cucumbers, basil, beans, peppers hot and sweet. Fall will bring back the spring items and hopefully some collards, kale and such in the winter. I hope to run a 4-season garden this year. In the past I have only done spring and summer plantings.

Thats all for now.

Seeya,

Uncle Jabba

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Netty wrote on Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:19 pm:

Hi Uncle Jabba and welcome!
I can't wait to see the results of all your hard work!

Gardenstew wrote on Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:19 pm:

Thanks for the updates Uncle Jabba, you don't waste any time ;)

>>> This is a vegetable garden and will be filled with Heirloom and organic seeds.

Is this your first attempt at vegetable gardening?

cajunbelle wrote on Wed Jan 17, 2007 2:46 am:

That sounds great Uncle Jabba. Please keep us updated. We have that horrible clay soil too and did the same to try and soften it to dig. The water didn't absorb for a couple of days. That is also what happens when it rains and why a lot of my plants dont' make it.