Today I leveled (mostly) one of my 12″ deep raised beds, by digging a hole down to the bottom of the 2′ stake and then hammering the thing down with a mallet. Whee! HulkLyn Smash!
Then I used the backfilled hole to plant a Horseradish, because a 2′ deep hole filled with loose dirt and peat is about the nicest, deepest hole I’m gonna get for a root plant like that.
Once I’d hauled over some more compost-dirt mix and peat moss and mixed the whole thing up like a particularly giant brownie mix, I started putting in the rest of the plants, yay! (well, first I laid down ground cloth).
This is Brassica Bed One – We’re not growing many nightshades this year, to defeat the blight problem we’ve been having, so we’re overcompensating with All Dah Brassicaceae. First in is a multi-color mix of cauliflower and then a four-pack of purple cauliflower. When I go back out, a row of baby bok choy. Whee!
It helps, I suppose, that we really like EATING brassicaeae.
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Om nom nom tasty brassica
seae!PRETTY tasty brassicaseae. Turns out Turnips are a brassicaseae tooo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnip And Radishes are in the same family if not the same genus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radish (hey, are those in the same family as Rampion/Rapunzel?…. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campanula_rapunculus no. <.<)
Conveniently for us, a number of families of plants with parts we can eat are vast and sprawling — and then we encouraged them to be more so. 🙂 Om nom nom Rosids.
Oh hey, both Cucurbitales and Brassicas are in that!
Yeeeees. And Rosales, which includes the stone fruits and the pome fruits and strawberries and blackberries. And over in a different corner, cacao …
Wow, wow, that’s a lot of fruit in my garden!!