Death To Zombies

My CSA isn’t selling half shares of food next year and they’re requiring 12 hours of volunteer work.  He’s a nice guy, but if I’m going to put 12 hours in a garden, I might as well just plant my own.

So I’ve been digging through some old gardening books to decide on what sort of a garden I’m going to do.  So many options anymore, Raised Beds, Square Foot Gardening, Lasagna Gardening, No Till Gardening, who’s to know what to do.

One thing was sure and that was that I needed a bunch of organic material to add to the clayey soil I have in my Kansas back yard.  So I hopped onto craigslist and searched for “free leaves” and ran into Benjamin Landscaping who needed a place to dump some leaves.

I ordered up a load and this morning they dropped by.  The leaves were dry, chopped up a bit and looked like a pleasure to work with.  Justin, the guy who stopped by was polite, on time and helpful.  Couldn’t ask for more, I showed him the route in and he backed up the truck, tilted the bed and swept it all out.

I’m going to buy some vermiculite, sand, peat moss and manure that I’ll till in later on.  I’ll also run a soil test and figure out what to add in order to get pH to 6.5.  I’m not sure if I’m going to till, but buying all this stuff and running the test is going to take some time.  I’ll use that time to keep researching the different options.