a year and a day in the box

last year we built a magical flower box in front of the house. We were plant crazy and didnt realize that when plants say plant two feet apart they meant from any other plant no just the same kind of plant. Well, fukem, we planted a bunch of stuff way to close together and hoped for the best. Here is the box fotos taken one year and one day apart. Wait until you see the ladybug fotos after we found aphids on the honeysuckle we unleashed a can of ladybug whoopass on them. Ladybugs like to procreate, ladybug porn coming soon...

time to make the soil

1) My beloved roto tiller on loan from my parents, its makes soil building so much easier. The roto tiller is resting on our super wormy compost container.

2) Bumper Crop Premium Organic Soil Builder, if I could be sponsored by Bumper Crop and Schlitz I would be a happy man.

Organic Chicken Poo gets mixed with our own Compost as well as Lobster Compost, Peet, vermaculite and Cedar Mulch

4) These rubbermaid bins are awesome for mixing the soil in

5) Here is the side garden that we built last year, these are pine boxes that lay directly on the concrete, we put burlap cloth on the bottom of the boxes to minimize soil loss. If I get a chance I will post the building process from last year as well as some fotos of last years garden.

6) Building soil is dirty work, Snagglefin grabbed the Nature Shapes Paddleboard for a quick rinse to get the dirt off. Water was crystal clear and Caribbean blue but flat as a lake. While she grabbed the paddle I planted our Snow Peas and Sugar Daddy Peas using Legume Inocculent, let see how that turns out as last year our peas grew up to the roof line I cant imagine an even better harvest this year.

wirms are yummy

What a winter, so much snow, so much bs cold, not enough waves. I kept wondering if the compost would hold up that we started last year or just turn into one giant block of frozen rotting shit. Borrowed a compost turner from my neighbor, opened the hatch and hoped for the best. Being we added new matter to it all winter I figured some stirring would be in order. First stab and twist, woosh, a flume of steamy heat, I aint no botanist or even a gardener but when there is heat off your compost pile that means its doing its job. Even better was the 1000s of worms the next turn of the fork spun up. Now we are in business. Also stopped off and got some supplements and soil, Bumper Crop (more on this rad product later) and lobster compost and chicken poopoo.