It’s been raining cats and dogs. Not much to do in the yard with child other than poke about for lizards and mushrooms… and slime mold. My favorite two shots today were the anole that actually held still for a minute on the bean plant…
…and Julia showing me a tiny mushroom she found.
The slime mold was NOT a fav, but weirdly interesting.
I was up dinking around on graph paper trying to figure out paver costs so I can decide whether to do it myself or hire the job out. Basically I want a little 100 ft mini garden for kitchen growing and I debate going with mulch for paths or waiting a bit and having pavers instead.
Mulch is cheaper, but has to be replenished as it breaks down. But is lets water seep in and if I rent a tiller and I can get that sucker done over a weekend.
Pavers are more expensive, but don’t have to be replenished. But water doesn’t seep in, and I have to be careful to lay it so it runs off properly AND I’ve never laid pavers before.
In the space I have, this set up pleases me the most for the kitchen garden. The paths would actually be 4 ft wide instead of the 3ft on the graph.
That sketch represents 96 sq feet and when you figure the few Earthboxes I want to have along the sidewalk edge that brings us to a nice 100 sq feet. Big enough to dink around in, but not so big that it overwhelms me and preschooler.
Nice, simple, symetrical design that makes crop rotation easy on my newbie gardener brain. The things in the squares can rotate among themselves and the things in the rectangles can rotate among themselves.
This was a good read:
http://www.gardeningdata.co.uk/vegetables/crop_rotation/crop_rotation.php
