Got started with our winter garden this morning. The raised beds needed a little makeup soil to get them back to full level, so I got a bucketful from the compost heap and blended it by hand. I figured out real fast that a shovel that my ex-SIL broke when he borrowed it was the perfect length for working in raised beds that are nearly waist high to me. Used the little push plow to set up a ground level bed for the broccoli, sprouts, and English peas. Has to water the ground bed, but all the raised bed boxes still have plenty moisture. Shot the 13-13-13 to all of it and hopefully will have a bit of nice greens in a few weeks.
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Got cabbage, lettuce, radish, carrots, and spring onion in the two large beds on the right. Gonna overhaul the strawberry bed and top up the large bed on the lower right tomorrow. Rather warm September morning with lunchtime temperatures at 93 with a feels-like temperature of 99. Don’t have the big water oak shading these anymore, so hoping for some improvement in performance. We usually have pretty good broccoli, but the sprouts never seem to mature before cabbage worms get them in the spring. English peas are hit/miss. I’m not putting the trellis back up until I see peas sprouting.