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| Kaye, Dan, and Jack Rich along with Jack's friend, James. |
Two Cub Scouts joined us for our Spring Planting yesterday. They were working on their World Conservation Badges and planting a vegetable garden was one of the requirements. We were only too glad to have them.
Thankfully, many other people joined us for the planting ~ thankfully because we had two yards of turkey compost to unload! We spread it all over the beds and worked it in well. We also built two 4'x4' square foot garden boxes (those should be exciting to watch grow). All in all, we planted tomatoes, peppers, okra, cucumbers, melons, squash, green beans and basil.
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| The boys really got into the planting. Ah, boys and dirt... |
Later in the day we held another class, this one on Basic Organic Gardening. The heat drove us inside where we met in air conditioned comfort. Linda spoke for over an hour, talking about such topics as how to build a garden from scratch, light and water requirements of vegetables, how (and with what) to amend the soil and organic fertilizers. Handouts were ... well... handed out, listing everything she talked about and more, including a list of popular and easy-to-find organic fertilizers and soil amendments and information on each in an effort to demystify them. Also in the handout packet was a planting guide listing most all the crops we can easily grow in Central Texas and the best times for planting them, a paper explaining how to compost, The Natural Gardener's handout on vegetable gardening and another on sheet mulching. Linda even brought some tomato plants she'd started from seed and some excited class participants took them home. Here's hoping they get bumper crops of mouth watering 'maters!
