Asparagus!

Comfrey

I had to clear out a front bed where a sewer line is going, right through a patch of comfrey. We weren't crazy about it in that location anyway so I pulled it all out, transplanted a few, and cleaned the rest of the roots to dry them. All kinds of herbal concoctions could result, mostly for hair and skin treatment.

First planting

Well, with the weather as it's been, most of my friends started a month ago. Nevermind. I would have had to skip the manure haul and ammendment, and I was dead-set on getting a good solid charge of organic fertilizer and organic matter, into this garden this year.

I'm thrilled that I did. My beds really look like they can grow SOME FOOD!

Today I direct-seeded:
~25 chioggia beets
~45 detroit dark red short top beets
~25 parsnips
~120 rainbox mix carrots.

Rye

I'm about to turn this strip of rye in. It's at least a foot high. Then there will be the poop to add. I'm going liberal with it.

Garlic

Garlic got top-dressed with a manure compost tea.

Poop #2

One can not help but be hopeful after turning in 4 inches of horse manure. Check out these beds!

Poop

Almost done unloading a trailer full of horse and donkey manure. It'll be about 25 wheelbarrow-fulls, which covered about half the garden 3 inches deep. It's a hefty amendment of organic matter and nutrients on a garden that hasn't seen that much love in years. I can wait to see this years produce! Waiting for the manure gave me a little later start than some of my friends but I doubt it'll hurt too much, it was a very early warm year but planting now I'm right on time for almost everything, if you go by frost dates. We will try for another load to love the rest of the garden before everything is in the ground.