First thing in the morning, I picked up four bags of compost, and filled up the rest of the third garden bed. I put down some pieces of branches beneath the soil to test them out as “water batteries” and finally put the tomatoes up on a frame.

Next, I conducted pest control and removed “sickly” leaves and such from the middle bed. I put these leaves in a separate pile far away from everything.

Early afternoon I made a run to the nearby plant farm and picked up lettuce, broccoli, spinach, bok choy, cauliflower, and a diverse assortment of herbs.

I also went to home depot and got a few more pieces for extending the water system to the middle bed, where the kale has been growing like crazy, and got attacked by beetles and bacteria at the same time. I put all the lettuce in the fresh bed, and I hope the dill and marigolds will keep away hungry bugs.

Lacking any grass clippings, I went around the property and collected a ton of grass by hand.

Having cleared a large percent of the bugs and “dirty” leaves from the middle bed, the kale bed, I have taken a risk and planted some broccoli, as well as extended the watering system into the bed. Initially, the watering system never fully covered the bed; this time around, I’ve put the source at the highest point of the bed and let the water flow downwards, naturally.

I am going to try and grow plants and clover side by side. This will require some maintenance but I hope to establish a relationship where the clover supplies nutrients and compost to vegetables.

Tomorrow I will find a way to plant the remaining vegetables. They’ll either go in the “last” bed, which has been growing nothing but clover, but the bed is more shaded than the other two, or I may entirely relocate the bed into a sunny patch …

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