After landing another load of garden "supplies" from Walmart, we were able to get some more work in with the garden. This was really a chance opportunity to get some more stuff when it wasn't really necessary at the moment but when it comes to reaching a goal, why not? Nonetheless, we did manage to check off some more boxes with regard to what needed to be taken care of in the garden. The biggest thing that was brought back was several bags of dirt, which when it comes to Walmart, were cheaper than the other hardware stores around. One of the first things that I wanted to take care of was the filling of one of the newer drum, or in this case, garbage can planters. This was a plastic garbage can that was once used to hold chicken feed until varmints chewed a hole in the bottom, rendering this can useless for such a task. It was however perfect for use as a planter. I planted one of the transplanted fruit trees in this garbage can last year but couldn't fill the can to the top with dirt. But now that box has been checked off since the dirt we got was more than plentiful. With that planter done I can start putting strawberries in it, along with the other drum planter, finishing up that little task as well. That'll be for a later date though. As for the dirt we moved on to the greenhouse once again. There were only a couple bucket planters remaining to fill with dirt before I could check off the box for filling all the buckets in the greenhouse. With that I turned my attention to the half drum raised beds on the opposite side of the greenhouse. In one of the drum raised beds there was already some compost within. I had to pick out some weeds from this matter before I dump the dirt within so I will hopefully not have to worry about picking weeds from the dirt sometime in the future when veggies are growing within. I'll probably not be able to avoid this but I can try. Anyway, after pulling what I could, we dumped probably around four bags of dirt in the half drum, filling it to the top, checking off yet another box on the list. As for the other half drum, I was only able to put maybe a half gallon of remaining dirt in the bottom of the bed. Of course this means another four bags will be needed to get that bed filled up, with some leftover. We'll get it done though. After finishing our dirty job we moved on to more simpler things, planting veggies. Since we still had one spot remaining in one of the raised beds that contained spaghetti squash, we brought back one more spaghetti squash to fill that void, and check off that box too. Of course the other plants already got a head start so this plant here will be lagging behind somewhat but better late than never. At least this is another raised bed that is filled up for the season, and hopefully will produce well for us. The last thing that was taken care of that really didn't have anything to do with the supply haul was the planting of some potato eyes. Even though we didn't get any seed potatoes this year, I did still have a couple of mini spuds that I dug up sometime in the late winter that I missed from last fall. These spuds were left to sit on the counter, causing them to inevitably grow eyes on them, as spuds always do when allowed to sit. These three little spuds were perfect to plant to at least try and see if we could get at least a small amount of potatoes this season. These were planted in the old refrigerator raised bed, the same that we used last year for spuds. Ironically I must've missed another mini spud because there was a potato plant growing in the corner of the raised bed, already off to a start. Maybe it was a mini spud or maybe just enough root that it was able to start growing into a plant, who knows? With all this stuff done I can move on to some other little bullshit tasks around the yard while i wait for the weather to cooperate and dry up enough that I can lay on the ground without getting soaked. The garden still does have a long ways to go before I could honestly write it off as complete. Between the fences, adding more raised beds, finishing the greenhouse and hydroponics and running micro irrigation all over to feed every plant within the gates, the garden can't be considered nowhere near complete yet. Hell for all intents I'll even have to come back over the gravel bed to touch up some areas where gravel has settled so we can continue to have a good uniform ground covering where no standing water is allowed to surface, much less any muddy spots. The year is still young and we're moving along rather well, I must say, so I'm confident that we'll get this stuff done.
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