As usual I bring back another load of gravel to continue the mission of covering up the bare grounds within the compound to make work easier with the annoyances of mud eliminated. The NW area of the yard is almost completely covered after laying down this latest batch of gravel, with one more load most likely being the capping of this area. Once this area is done, I will go back into the chicken yard to cover up some old areas that have settled as well as the bare area that I was going to try to lay sod down. With chickens, there's no way in hell sod would last.
Back in the garden, we managed to get another load of dirt with which to use to fill more planters and beds. I focused my attention on the three drum planters on the north side of the garden that each have a fruit tree. Two of the drums are actually halves from one 55 gallon drum and the other is an old garbage can that got chewed from varmints at the bottom and was no longer good for holding chicken feed. With more dirt in these beds, I can then start putting strawberries within to complete those mini "food forests" for the garden. I then used this batch of dirt to fill several cat litter buckets in the raised bed arrangement within the Dog Kennel Greenhouse. Most of these buckets already had some compost placed within to further decompose so when I did put dirt in the buckets. They would have a head start with some nutrients to help whatever plants I to place in these buckets grow better than otherwise. After I get the buckets filled up I can then start dumping dirt in the two half drum raised beds that are also in the greenhouse. The last thing I'll have to do then is finish the construction of the hydroponic garden arrangements. There's another thing that we ended up grabbing that we might've normally not wanted to try and mess with, but with our enthusiasm for having a decent growing season, we thought, why not. Lowe's had a bunch of small banana plants that come in gallon planter pots but can and should be transplanted into a larger vessel. These plants are supposed to grow upwards of 10 ft tall but the average is more like 6ft. These mini banana plants are of course not supposed to be allowed to get to freezing if one would want them to survive year after year. With that, it means the plant would need to be planted in a small enough vessel to allow the plant to be moved to a greenhouse or indoors in the winter. This would also mean that the plants would need a good dose of fertilizer to stay viable and productive. Again, we still have plenty of planters and drums to fill with dirt. The current planters should allow us to have a large production of veggies and fruits. Of course there's still plenty of real estate available to allow us to build even more raised beds and even set up more fruit trees in drum planters in a neat manner to optimize the routing of micro irrigation lines so everything can be watered properly. Once completed, this garden should be able to produce more fruits and veggies than we ever thought we could produce.
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