Thursday, May 28, 2009

Garden progress - organics issues

The Garden is coming a long, We have a tool for building our garden plan now.

The organics has posed a small problem as some of the plants now show signs of nitrogen and phosphorus deficiency. I think the compost from the county wasn't fully cured and was only one type loaded with wood products. The over abundance of wood and lack of curing pulled the nitrogen out of the soil and tied up other nutrients. I'm sure at some point the organics with reach an equilibrium and free up nutrients.

In other news the garden is growing strong we have had 2 salads from the garden.

We have had some kind of pest eating our peas, not sure what it is. Theories range from birds to grasshoppers (I killed a grasshopper the other day on the back deck)

I'll post the planing images soon and pictures after that.