Reclaiming a bed: Part Deux

Greetings from the farm. These last couple of weeks we have been further working on the construction project that I've been chronicling. As you can see in the pictures, we've finished clearing off the top layer of soil and have started the process of digging out the holes for the plastic planters. The reason for the planters hearkens back to how thick the soil is with clay. If we were to just try and plant anything here without the planters to contain any good soil, the bed would be a failure. The project should be nearing completion here in the next week or so since most of the hard labor is now out of the way. As always, I'll be sure to keep you updated as this project winds down and a brand new one begins.

Reclaiming a bed.

Greetings from the farm. For the last two weeks we've been occupied with reclaiming one of the beds along the drive for a landscape project. Because the soil is so packed with clay, it's been a ton of work but we have finally finished the perimeter wall and can now go about getting off the top layer of soil and evening it out before digging the holes for our buckets which we will be planting in. It's been a fight with the soil, but in the next two weeks or so the project ought to be complete and we will be able to start planting in the bed just in time for some (hopefully) warmer weather, then it will be on to our next set of beds to prep. Until next week!