Another bed!

From The Office:

Jim: You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Dwight: You can catch even more with manure; what’s your point?

We put in another bed to make room for the summer crops we’ll plant this weekend. I used all our remaining moving boxes, all the remaining oak leaves from our neighbor, a ton of mulch from our recent delivery, coffee grounds from Starbucks, and an entire truckload of composted manure – and sheet mulched a 16′ by 16′ space where we’ll grow 2 varieties of Southern peas and calabaza.

Before we’d started any gardening, back in February:

The first several layers of organic matter in place; Girly inspects my progress:

Finished! This took several hours over the course of the past three days. I’m exhausted, but giddy to have a home prepared for our next round of veggies!

Whew! This first season of gardening is some hard work. I’m so excited though to see our yard transforming from empty to lush.