First plantings

We had to redo some of the soil in the raised beds; removing a bit of the loam and adding a bit more compost and some peat moss. Finished this on the low one, but still need to work on the mixture for the higher one.

Yesterday planted 48 radish seeds and 16 of the kohlrabi seedlings in the low bed. It was fairly difficult to extract the seedlings from the seeding tray without breaking them, so there were a number of plant fatalities in the process. Probably need to work on our technique. Fortunately there are probably far more seedlings than we really need.

I don't think we mentioned that about a week ago we relocated some winter creeper plants from the front of the house to the back fence. It kept wanting to climb the holly bushes in front of the porch, so we decided to let it climb the ugly chain link fence back by the T instead. We also moved one to the north side of the house by the other fence, so we'll see how it does there. If they die, no big loss. Then yesterday we dug up the remaining two and delivered them to Karen Miller for use in her front garden. Then we transplanted some hostas from the northeast rear beds to the front of the house where we'd removed the winter creeper.

Jen also worked on installing the soaker hose in the low bed. I put down grass seed on the re-graded berm I built against the rear of the house near the bulkhead doors where water always seemed to pool during rainstorms.

Today we went to Allandale Farm and picked up two new healthier-looking raspberry bushes (don't ever buy plants from Home Depot again -- lesson learned!) which we'll be adding to the south fence. Also got two strawberry plants and a few adjuncts that we needed.