Over the last week I pulled apart the pallet on which they delivered all the dirt etc. I recycled the boards as edging for the garden. It's a "faux raised" bed! On Tuesday I had a day at home, so I leveled out the plot with more dirt etc. The garden surface was still an inch or two below the surrounding yard, and it pooled a lot of water (briefly) in the heavy rain last weekend. So I added a mix of: 40 lbs cheapo topsoil + 1 lg. bag name-brand topsoil (miracle gro) + 1 smaller bag miracle gro potting mix, + ~ 3 lbs Tomato tone. The tomato tone smells exactly like a chicken farm. I mixed this in the wheelbarrow, applied it and then mixed a second batch, and applied that too. Looks pretty good so far. Note = about 6 lbs tomato tone across the entire garden, ~ 100 sq ft. I totally eyeballed the amount based on the 20 lb bag...
So far all the plants are doing OK. Next up: Weed control/plastic mulch, and fencing the garden...to prevent the little ones from accidentally stomping on my plants.
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