this week in the garden

just another sunday morning in the garden; hot, peaceful and plenty of tasty cake!!!  it was just darry and myself and i would like to think we got something accomplished besides eating cake.

we have a large leaf pile that has been composting for about 18 months.  we use it where ever we need to add humus to the beds.  in some spots, it is almost black and resembles soil while in others, it is still obvious that it is a leaf pile.  i took buckets of it and with my hands, crumbled it up into the wheel barrow with some of the wood chips we use to line the walk ways.  with a ratio of 3 parts leaves to 1 part wood chips, i began applying this mixture to some hungry beds.

 a close up of the mixture

 the first place i headed, the vertical garden.  all of the plants (except the beans) are heavy feeders and they look a little puny at this point.  i gave the bed a generous layer but not the beans, they were left as is.

 the other thing i did, remove the kale seedlings.  we had a bunch of kale that was planted as a green manure but i made the decision to follow jeff poppen's brassica rule-none in the garden after may 1, they attract too many harmful insects.  needless to say, they came out of the bed.

 i also gave the zombie garden a layer.  

 gotta love the sticks-they mark the places where i planted things.

 what's a zombie garden without spider webs-i found this stick with a web on it and into the garden it went

 this is how we do the dish-we filled it with plants!  darry discovered the easiest way to weed it-climb aboard!

and as always, cake.  cinnamon coffee cake with chocolate chips, a true comedy of baking errors.  if there wasn't an ingredient i had to replace because i was out, i can't think of it!  it was truly tasty.  visit my blogpage to see the recipe and perhaps bake one yourself!

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