Now's The Time To Plan Your Garden

[rhodielady_47]

If you have only a limited amount of space to garden in, perhaps you might like to try a hugel bed.
[BTW--This picture comes from Pinterest.]

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[rhodielady_47]

I just had a thought occur to me:
There are some cool weather veggies that aren't that fond of the high heat of summer. I wonder if some of those might prefer the shady side of your hugel bed?
I'd love to see pictures of your hugel bed once you get it put together and I'm sure the other members of the Gardening community would too!

BTW--How do you feel about mushrooms? If you like eating them, you might want to consider setting up a Shiitaki mushroom log or two. From what I've read your red maple logs would be perfect for this and they'd love the shady spot.
Here's some information about this:
https://pss.uvm.edu/ppp/articles/shiitake.html
https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/cms/life-out-here/garden-home-land/gardening/how-to-grow-shiitake-mushrooms-outdoors
And youtube has video's of it as well.
Best of luck to you!
:^)

[meistergedanken]

I have a big deer problem, so whatever I plant there will also have to be resistant to them in the bargain (my raised vegetable beds in the back have hoops and netting over them). For the first year or two I will likely just sow some wildflowers there, since the soil cap will be pretty shallow until the wood starts to break down in earnest.

It's quite wet where I am, and there are all sorts of strange fungi that come up in the yard, including grapefruit-sized earth balls that spring up all around where the septic tank is buried (I'm sure that's completely fine and not indicative of anything amiss...) - but I'm way too hesitant and wary to try and identify which are edible and which aren't.

More Information for you--

[rhodielady_47]

There's no need to worry about which fungi are edible or not. Shiitaki mushrooms are grown from mushroom spawn that you buy, so of course they're okay to eat.
Shiitaki mushrooms are planted in the form of plugs placed into freshly cut logs. After that, you wait a few months and then you should start to harvest mushrooms for the next few years.

Human urine is some of the best deer repellent that there is.
[Now is the time of year that you begin applying the urine. You apply it everywhere that deer walk on their way into your yard. Since deer won't walk across a yucky scent barrier like that, it breaks them of the habit of visiting your yard while they look for food during the summer months.]
:^)