Gardening for next year; New Job and planning
Region 4 finally called and I start there on January 16. Yay! I have the same position but the point of it is to get out of CRC so I can get back in to the Program Tech I @ the Riverside Parole office. So yay again.
Secondly I have seriously been reading, thinking and re-thinking about how to do next years garden. Obviously I need more raised beds. I have a lot of wasted ground space and that makes it hard to use just the two beds I have now. The space around the composter is not only well suppiled with nutrients I could support a larger bed system around it. I need of course a walkway to the composter but that is easily created. What I want to do is make it easy on four sides while still having raised a larger bed. I was thinking of making it easy access on both sides of the bed and making a sort of almost closed square. I have to see how it would work because that is a lot more wood working but that isn't a problem because I can build that pretty easy. I'd like to get started though right away yet the weather kind of isn't helping. Since I also had to blow the rest of my availible cash on fixing the truck, I could work on the ground for the chicken coop along with measuring around the composter for the raised beds.
I finally laid down the hay in some open space near the fence, Lilac bush and the small but icky Plum tree I'd love to take out. The Plums are nasty and we could use a different tree. Too bad too but useful is more important than not. Maybe it needs a better spot so we might offer it up to someone who wants to dig it up.
Next year I want to better plan for the veggies so I can add more plants to the beds. Also the fence line outside our area is slated for either Blueberry or perhaps Manazita bushes that grow in this icky soil. I want to add more native plants that do not require the amount of water outsiders do although I did find a drought tolerant blueberry. They are worth it for not only the fruit, Bee-calling ability but the fall foliage will pretty up the area. So will a good Manazita plant too. Elderberry is also on the list for next year. It will be taking the spot some useless bush has had for a while. We might not get berries but it will help with pulling in Bees. The area around that icky Loquat is slated to have massive ground covering too! Bearberry, Winterberry should not only crowded out our neighbor's over growing nasty ice plants but keep those fucking feral cats from using the yard as a piss/shit box. Gonna make sure that whole space is made uncat friendly.
Secondly I have seriously been reading, thinking and re-thinking about how to do next years garden. Obviously I need more raised beds. I have a lot of wasted ground space and that makes it hard to use just the two beds I have now. The space around the composter is not only well suppiled with nutrients I could support a larger bed system around it. I need of course a walkway to the composter but that is easily created. What I want to do is make it easy on four sides while still having raised a larger bed. I was thinking of making it easy access on both sides of the bed and making a sort of almost closed square. I have to see how it would work because that is a lot more wood working but that isn't a problem because I can build that pretty easy. I'd like to get started though right away yet the weather kind of isn't helping. Since I also had to blow the rest of my availible cash on fixing the truck, I could work on the ground for the chicken coop along with measuring around the composter for the raised beds.
I finally laid down the hay in some open space near the fence, Lilac bush and the small but icky Plum tree I'd love to take out. The Plums are nasty and we could use a different tree. Too bad too but useful is more important than not. Maybe it needs a better spot so we might offer it up to someone who wants to dig it up.
Next year I want to better plan for the veggies so I can add more plants to the beds. Also the fence line outside our area is slated for either Blueberry or perhaps Manazita bushes that grow in this icky soil. I want to add more native plants that do not require the amount of water outsiders do although I did find a drought tolerant blueberry. They are worth it for not only the fruit, Bee-calling ability but the fall foliage will pretty up the area. So will a good Manazita plant too. Elderberry is also on the list for next year. It will be taking the spot some useless bush has had for a while. We might not get berries but it will help with pulling in Bees. The area around that icky Loquat is slated to have massive ground covering too! Bearberry, Winterberry should not only crowded out our neighbor's over growing nasty ice plants but keep those fucking feral cats from using the yard as a piss/shit box. Gonna make sure that whole space is made uncat friendly.