Rural Gardening: May Flowers on the "Homestead", 0 by darius

darius wrote:
My new hugelkultur bed is coming along nicely, just slow on my part. I was stupid and bought some Miracle-Gro Garden soil for vegetables/flowers to cover the inverted sod so I could plant my winter squash seedlings. I covered about 5 feet on one end with about 2" of the crap ($30 worth), and put the sprinkler on it. The crap sheds water rather than absorbing it, defeating the purpose of a hugelkultur bed! So I scraped it all off, and will have to buy a small load of topsoil in the next 2-3 days. The "black gold" from last fall's sheet mulching tested with a pH of 9.0 so it will need something like elemental sulfur for a while before I can use it.

I have a new "garden helper" for unloading several truckloads of wood chips: meet Bogart. We've had him a week, and had him neutered (he's from the shelter). He's exuberant, to put it mildly, but he should calm down.