Yesterday I spent some time in the vegetable garden, planted lettuce and started building more layers on the spot where we will plant potatoes...Last fall Herb had chopped leaves from our maple trees and piled them because it was too windy to add them to the garden...Using a fork I now added the leaves to the plot, spread more straw, then spread a bag of alfalfa pellets and a wheelbarrow load of decomposed llama manure...About mid May we will cover this bed with newspaper, lay seed potatoes on top, cover with straw, throw on decomposed manure, hope the rain comes to wet it all down or (water with a sprinkler) and wait for the potatoes to sprout...Add more straw as needed to keep the new potatoes covered from the sun...Harvest late fall after the vines have died down...Also you can "rob" new potatoes in the summer...After the potatoes are harvested we will plant garlic in the Pre prepared bed under the potatoes.
Must get moving, I'm helping Pat at her friends house with a yard sale and might even find a bargain or two for myself...Hugs to All.... OWAV:)
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