Northwold Garden

Another big Saturday work day out at the Northwold lot. We rented the sod cutter one more time and finally finished cutting all the grass off the garden area. The sod cutter worked great this time - no trouble starting, cut fairly well and on and off the truck without much effort. We didn't have time to get all the cut grass off the garden area. We'll work on that again next week. We spread some leaf compost in the front part of the garden area. We did an initial till and then a second till to mix the leaf compost in as well. We haven't dug very deep with the tiller at this point. The clay underneath is hard and full of rocks. This garden will take a few years to get the soil in garden shape, but you have to start some where. We also measure the garden area we will be working with - 85ft by 50ft - 4250 sq. feet.  This is by far the largest planting area of all our gardens. Its exciting though to see plants in the ground after leasing this property for 3 years. We planted a number of rows of tomatoes, a few pepper plants and some cucumbers. Next Saturday we hope to  plant zucchini, yellow squash, beans, pumpkins and corn.