expatgirl
Master Chef
We"ve used the same contractor, Charlie D!
That is a lot of work. I remember one year I planted like 600 flower bulbs. I couldn't walk upright for a week. I basically reenacted that evolution of man diagram.
We"ve used the same contractor, Charlie D!
The beauty of raised beds is you don't bend over to plant. That's why old people love raised beds. You sit on the frame and reach into the bed to plant and weed. Typically the beds are 4 feet wide so you are never reaching over two feet into the bed.
The planting medium I use is pure compost, so the soil is soft and friable. To plant the onions, I poke a hole one inch deep in the soil, push in the onion plant and firm the soil around each plant. It was not hard on the back. The worst part was being in the sun and wind for so long.
In 2014 when I had my house built, I also had a landscaper build me a turn key garden. She ordered eight tons of compost to fill the beds. I still add home made and bagged compost and earthworms to my beds.
I use an LED light I got a deal on last fall (almost 50% off its current price), and I use it for 16 hours a day.Pepper, How much artificial light do you give your seedlings a day ?
Curry leaf has lost a lot of leaves and does have some kind of insect on its the it got over the winter ( probably from the soil). This thing always survives , but needs to produce new, healthier leaves .
When I went out on my deck this morning, I noticed that my chives looked "dirty". Turns out, they were covered with what I believed to be black aphids - something I have never seen on chives! I sprayed them with pyrethrin spray, then an hour or so, after it had dried off, and it looked like none of the aphids were moving any longer, I hosed it off. Then, after drying, I sprayed it again, including the area these things could have dropped onto the ground under the container. Hopefully, this was a one time thing.