Planning for the New Year
Now is the time for planning the gardens for the new growing season. In my case, The biggest item for me to work on is the broken concrete garden and walk liners as I mentioned in my last post. I also need to figure out just how much I am going to get done and how much new top/garden soil I will need. Last year I learned the hard way that the more expensive garden soil that my local supplier has is actually cheaper than the top soil they sell. We have had problems with the so-called top soil packing like concrete and failing to produce a satisfactory garden. We began adding peat moss to the top soil but the amount of peat moss required is significant enough to make the garden mix actually cheaper and I won’t have to do the hard work of mixing the peat moss into the top soil. Just one more hard learned lesson. My only question is why it took me so long to learn this.