Shade garden for the back yard; have to fence it to keep the dogs from committing mischief. Planning long range (from a spur of the moment urge) now I've got to dig about a foot deep to set the stage and loosen the next foot to give the roots some wiggle room.
Getting busy; two inches down from about a third of the new plot. Grass relocated to border the patio addition and top soil sifted for rocks, roots, and rubbish. Intend on trying to get about a foot deep and loosening about another six inches at the bottom to amend the base with lime, eggshells and crab shells and coffee grounds. Going to be one sore tired puppy by the end of the weekend.
This project helps kill time until the second coming of my Amazonian shed; this time they're riding with UPS and coming thru FL.
At about fifty pounds per pail and twenty pails so far that's half a ton of digging this morning for a 60 year old man.
Mission accomplished! Having forgotten to line the bottom with branches and the liberal dose of eggshells, crab shells, and coffee grounds I had to empty the pit and start all over. Despite the setback, I powered through and put two varieties of tomatoes, acorn, yellow, and zucchini squash, strawberries, Ghost Peppers, romaine lettuce, cucumber, and a couple of mystery peppers (forgot to label) in ground.
The outdoor efforts have thankfully provided enough distraction to keep my obtrusive tendencies in check with the indoor dainties; so much that the Frankenstank Monster takes the center stage with the most dominant showing I've encountered. The pair under the experimental new system will have to fill the cabinet to offer any competition.
Nearly have the garden for work organized; a dozen each of peppermint and marigold to see how effective a natural deterrent they are. Lights zip tied to a section of wire shelf so the unit can be hung flush mounted from cup hooks. All that's left to do is size the Mylar and molding so that the installation should only take about 30 minutes on site.