The backyard of this house is sizable but hadn't really been utilized much. Before I moved, I did a bit of gardening and could grow a few things. I figured I'd take a crack at breaking up some dirt and do a test run this year. There's still a lot of trees around that can block the sun so I made due the best I could.
Recently I realized that squash is actually decent as filler food and braindead to sear in a cast iron with just a dab of oil and salt. Cooking and recipe thread coming eventually. So I nabbed some seeds at a discount shop for zucchini and summer squash. Though I didn't plant any of the latter. To go with them was a number of green beans (often dumps nitrogen into the soil) and cayenne peppers just to see if I could grow something hot and spicy in this environment.
- Dug up strips
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I just had a tiny spade, so this was a bit slow. I just picked a spot near mid-day sun and started digging strips. The soil's a bit gritty and rain falls often here, so it's a bit tough. Figured I'd make strips so squash that grows can be placed somewhere easily and not start crushing other plants.
- Tree pot.
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There's also a tree stump that's been around for I have no idea how long. There'd been a hole in it that caught rain water a lot. So I took some dirt, filled it, and put some more seeds in. I have no idea if this will bear fruit, or veggies, but it would be funny. Maybe it'll just rot. No idea. This feels fun for Crop and Claw whimsy, though.
- Thanks for the free dirt.
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As I often lament, we get tons of leaves falling from trees above in the autumn, so we burn a lot. But the pile just sits there until next year. So while we had a bag of dirt, I figured all those burned arbora corpses would be nutritious and used a bit of that instead, mixed in with the bagged fertilizer. There's still quite a lot left too. God I hate leaves in autumn.
Now I can at least track how things grow by dumping them here, since I'm too lazy otherwise.
