A big thank you to everyone for your well wishes for the HH. Yesterday was the first day he was up and moving around without any brain fog, major tiredness or ear pain.
He’s on the mend!
The weather has been really nice the past few days. And by really nice I mean sunny and low to mid 50’s. Any day there’s sunshine and little to no wind is a good day in my book.
I worked in the garden from 9 am until 6 pm. It was AWESOME! By the time I came inside my hands were dry from playing in the dirt and my overalls were filthy. 😉
The big project of the day was positioning the 10 foot long raised bed and getting it filled with soil.
I was going to have the local nursery deliver a yard of garden soil, but apparently there’s a two yard minimum {plus $70 delivery fee!}.
So I decided to fill the raised bed with 2/3rds Pro Mix and ⅓ garden soil {which I liberated from the other raised beds in the back}.
Have you ever used Pro Mix in your garden before? This is my first time.
My old friend The Duck Lady used to grow vegetables and flowers in her greenhouse with Pro Mix and had great luck with it. So I figured, why not?
Pro Mix retains A LOT of water. Which is a good thing.
The reviews of the stuff online were really good too so I’m hoping everything goes as planned and we’re able to grow some nice vegetables with it this summer. It will be interesting to see how well the vegetables grow in the Pro Mix vs the garden soil from the other four garden beds.
I wasn’t going to plant any tomatoes in the elevated garden bed, but maybe I should plant at least one just to see what the difference is.
I’ve already planted carrots, beets, radish and turnip seeds in the regular garden boxes. Everything except the beets have popped though the soil. Hooray!
I won’t be planting my other vegetables in the garden boxes until the end of the month though so I decided to remove my 65 chive plants from the Solo cups to the elevated raised bed for now.
I figure this will give me a chance to see how often I’ll need to water the Pro Mix to keep the plants happy.
A sort of a test run if you will.
It feels SO GOOD to be playing in the dirt again. Fingers crossed we have a good summer with lots of sunshine and a ridiculous amount of vegetables.
A girl can dream, right?
~Mavis
P.S. I spotted chive plants at the nursery for $9.99 each.
65 plants x $9.99 = $649.35. I feel like I’m sitting on a gold mine! 😉
Linda Boyd says
We used Pro-Mix in our raised beds when we lived in Vermont & great success with it! Keep us posted on the differences in your beds. What are your plans for all those chives?! I’m glad the HH is healing. (Is the H for handsome or handy?!)