Got the plowing done yesterday.
Posted on 11/18/2016 5:44:05 PM PST by greeneyes
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Had a bit of cold damage in our community garden. Not bad, but a warning. Watch the incoming temps.
Got the plowing done yesterday.
Looks like pretty good soil.
Definitely not Ozarks...
The soil here isn’t great, but it’s not bad. Nominal 6” of black topsoil over some pretty tight clay, but there’s no rock.
Right now the plan is to put pumpkins on most of this patch next season. This past summer I learned that I’m not man enough to keep up with 500 tomato plants without some serious gains in efficiency. I need to put up a packing house of some sort before I set out that many again.
We had four tomato plants in our raised beds. All were roma varieties.
We had more tomatoes than we could eat, harvesting as many as a dozen every day.
We made pasta sauce, froze some for chili this winter and had BLTs, etc.
Our soil is Ozark creek bottom, modified with a truckload of top soil from southern Iowa.
The beds are 4’ X 10’ and about 40 inches deep.
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