There's nothing like hauling around piles of compost and building raised garden beds to get the blood flowing on a sunny autumn day. Luckily, while
Jessica was busy showing folks around the garden and snapping photos,
Chris helped me lay out burlap and haul buckets of soil to start
building the free-form raised bed which we'll be using to plant lots of
local, organic garlic into next week.
You can't tell from the photo, since we hadn't started moving the compost yet, but we got
quite dirty by the end, and once Nigel stopped by to help us out it was actually pretty fun. (Boy, did I sleep well after all of that manual labor!)
It wasn't all digging and hauling around buckets, though. When Ms. Pierre stopped by, we checked out the progress of the kale and strawberries, pulled up some of the overgrown radishes and weeds for the compost bin, and even dug up some of the beets and a single (giant) carrot from the round bed we'd planted in early summer. Yum!
Hope we can bring some more students out for our regular Tuesday workdays (1:30-3:30pm). I mean, we've got digging and planting to do. Plus
somebody needs to make sure the strawberries are eaten before the frost. Yes, they're fruiting again!
