In for the evening and no more gardening today. Weeded a flowerbed that I look at all the time from my back door and needed weeding badly. Then I moved upstairs and started working on my veggie area again. I made a border divider out of some leftover edger pavers to show where the iris garden ends and the veggies begin. So now I have a 4 by 8 foot (approx) rectangle edged with paver blocks. I wanted the soil loose even thought it looks like good soil. So I got out my shovel and double dug it. That really got deeper by doing it twice and loosened up the clods. Then I raked it and thumped out and leveled any remaining clods.
Now tomorrow I am going to rake it again even though it really looked pretty good tonight. Once that is done I will measure and set up my rows for seed planting. I need to get my root crops in by/before the end of June because otherwise I think it would be too late for them.
And this bed will be great and stay loose I hope. It is 4 feet wide but accessable from each side. So you only need to reach in 2 feet. It had better work because that is the way I am doing it.
This bed is for my root crops. I have four different types of turnips, then I have rutabaga, kolrabi, parsnips, golden beets, baby carrots, onion seeds. If I have room I can put some of my greens up there in the future but we will see.
