freemotion
Food Guru
I am hopelessly behind! I have houseguests coming, chicks about to hatch, 3 bucklings to think about banding, a new infant buckling who is high-maintenance right now.....
I still don't have my garden all in!!! I have to dig the sod from one more row for the corn/beans rows of my 3 sisters. Haven't started on the 24 squash mounds! I have to haul in a wheelbarrow of finished compost for every three mounds, too, to make them mounds and not holes. Imagine trying to maneuver a loaded wheelbarrow....heavy, we've had a lot of rain....through the gauntlet of lactating does with an eye on your tomato plants, having discovered the delights of them last year.
So I am wondering if I can just lay some paper feed sacks or cardboard or several layers of newspaper in each of the 24 spots, on top of the grass, and pile 4-5 inches of finished compost on it, then plant my winter squashes right in that.
Can I do that for my remaining corn mounds? I'm thinking the paper won't decay enough to let these plants get deep enough roots. Whatcha think?
We've had blazing hot sun interspersed with scary lightening storms lately so I have no hope of catching up in a reasonable time frame.....actually, that horse has already left the barn. It is June 18, for cryin' out loud!
Help!
I still don't have my garden all in!!! I have to dig the sod from one more row for the corn/beans rows of my 3 sisters. Haven't started on the 24 squash mounds! I have to haul in a wheelbarrow of finished compost for every three mounds, too, to make them mounds and not holes. Imagine trying to maneuver a loaded wheelbarrow....heavy, we've had a lot of rain....through the gauntlet of lactating does with an eye on your tomato plants, having discovered the delights of them last year.
So I am wondering if I can just lay some paper feed sacks or cardboard or several layers of newspaper in each of the 24 spots, on top of the grass, and pile 4-5 inches of finished compost on it, then plant my winter squashes right in that.
Can I do that for my remaining corn mounds? I'm thinking the paper won't decay enough to let these plants get deep enough roots. Whatcha think?
We've had blazing hot sun interspersed with scary lightening storms lately so I have no hope of catching up in a reasonable time frame.....actually, that horse has already left the barn. It is June 18, for cryin' out loud!
Help!